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He’s Back…
Nathan Englander’s long-awaited follow-up to his amazing story collection For the Relief on Unbearable Urges will be published later this ...
Kafka in Bronteland
A few weeks ago, Tamar Yellin won the first $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her novel The ...
Roth and Bellow, Again
Philip Roth has won another award, the first PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, named for his good ...
Jerusalem via Austin
As promised, here’s a link to my Jerusalem Post write-up of this year’s South By Southwest music festival, with a ...
For Mom’s Sake
The fourth issue of Guilt & Pleasure is now out, and at first glance, it seems as good (and good-looking) ...
The Safran Foer Haggadah
The Forward‘s got the scoop on novelist Jonathan Safran Foer’s next writing projects. The first is a continuation to his ...
Yentl the Mensch
What is it about Barbra?Jewish Women’s Archive celebrates mega-star Barbra Streisand’s 1963 Broadway debut in This Week in History: Streisand has ...
The $Big$ Winner
This just in from the Jewish Book Council: New York, NY (March 21, 2007) –The Jewish Book Council, administrator of ...
My Holocaust
I just received a review copy of Tova Reich’s forthcoming novel My Holocaust, and it looks intense, to say the ...
Jewish Music in Texas
I just returned from a mini-vacation in Austin — my fifth trip to South By Southwest (SXSW), the music industry’s ...