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Maxim D. Shrayer: Papa, let’s start with a basic question. What are the stories gathered in  Dinner with Stalin  about?David Shrayer-Petrov: Above ...

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

After reading the penultimate draft of my latest novel,  The Anatomy Lesson  (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), a trusted reader and one ...

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

I was biking recently in the foothills of the San Jacinto mountains in southern California, and I found myself far ...

I never intended to write novels.I also never intended to write for The New York Times. When I was 17, I ...

It was a day like any other. I was absorbed in the details of my life, answering an overflowing stack ...

In my many years of schooling across three continents, I’ve attended many Holocaust classes. Yet, during each lesson and every ...

My first novel,  The Wedding Beat , was loosely based on my experience as a single Jewish guy writing the ...

A Jew on display in a Plexiglas box, in Germany of all places, stands as a flagrant provocation. But there ...