memoir

Joy Ladin’s Door of Life

Talking to Joy Ladin is like speaking with your favorite professor from college — the one who wove words in ...

Graphic Memoir: The Legacy of Harvey Pekar

JT Waldman co-authored and illustrated the new graphic novel Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me with writer and frequent ...

Sleeping on Felix Frankfurter’s Couch

Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, is now available.I want to talk a little more about my family of ...

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, ...

Tisha B’Av and the Olympic Games

What happens when the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, the Ninth of Av, which memorializes the destruction of King ...

It Takes Two

As a writer, I’ve paid scant attention to the images that accompany my work. I’m usually too preoccupied with the ...

A Nice Jewish Girl on the Balance Beam

When you tell someone that you used to do gymnastics, she frequently answers that she, too, did it. When she ...

The Lost Afikoman

Moshe Kasher is a stand-up comedian and the author of Kasher In The Rye: The True Tale Of A White Boy ...

Destination Bat Mitzvahs

The other day I had a discussion with a group of girls about their ideal bat mitzvah (the celebration that ...

Jews, Non-Jews, and Being Losers Together

Yesterday, I put out a Twitter call: What should I write about? The always-dependable dlevy asked, in reply, “have you ...