Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman immigrated from the USSR at nine. He studied Russian literature at Princeton, was on staff at The New Yorker, co-wrote the US Senate’s Hurricane Katrina report, and has received a Fulbright to Turkey. He’s written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tablet, The Forward, The Jerusalem Report, and many others. He lives in New York.


Articles by Boris Fishman

Non-Standardized Testing

I subjected you to quite a bit of fire and brimstone the other day, so let’s end the week on a ...

Understanding the Villains; or, Stranger than Fiction

Donna Tartt, the author of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner  The Goldfinch , was once told by Ken Kesey, the ...

It’s the First Week of June. Do You Know Where Your Family History Is?

I’ve daydreamt for more than a decade about what a day like tomorrow—publication date for my debut novel A Replacement Life—might ...