fiction

5 Summer Reading Recommendations

Summer is here. The sun is high and hot, the days are long. All I want to do is sit ...

My Family’s Reaction to Fame Shark

“I sound like a cheap, mean kyke,” my father raged. “I sound like an idiot, a complete non-entity,” my mother ...

Almost Jewish

So why would a nice Jewish girl not write nice Jewish fiction? My last book,  Stations West , was about ...

In a Class by Themselves: A Jewish Fiction Reading List

A couple of years ago I decided to lead a group of adult learners in a class on Jewish fiction. The ...

Writing the Radical Other

In my first novel, I wrote from the point of view of a Nazi. In my new novel, The Wanting , ...

Who Are Your Characters Really?

It’s amazing how many North Londoners have taken me aside in a furtive, conspiratorial kind of manner, in order to ...

Recasting a Classic

Francesca Segal’s novel The Innocents is now available. I would never have set out to recast a classic, Pulitzer-winning American novel– ...

How Did I End up Doing This?

Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, is now available. For a long time I wanted to be a fiction ...

From Grandfather to Father to Son

Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, comes out this week.The story goes that, in 1923, when my father, ...

Are You a Jewish Writer?

First of all, I want to open up my week of blogging by saying how happy I am to be ...