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Novels and the Art of the Mauritshuis

Last night, I had the great honor of reading from my new novel,  The Anatomy Lesson  (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) inside ...

On Being Jewish in Amsterdam

Recently, a journalist who was interviewing me asked me to describe what it felt like to be a Jewish New ...

On Writing a Fictionalized Account of Baruch Spinoza’s Family

I’ve often been asked both by journalists and by my readers why my novel  The Elixir of Immortality  tells the ...