Interview | Tova Mirvis
“We Would Never” is inspired by a real 2014 murder, exploring how a family spirals into violence over custody.
Interview | An Israeli-Yemeni Woman Embraces the Culture She Tried for Years to Avoid
“I wanted to tell the story of Yemeni Jewish women because I grew up with these really powerful strong women.”
Interview | To & Fro Is a Conversation between Kafka and Midrash
“In this day and age, what we expect when we read about a girl on the cusp of adolescence, journeying on her own, is that she’s going to be subject to predation—but this was not the story that was growing through me.”
Interview | Why An Atheist Wrote His Debut Novel About a Religious Family
“When a family member becomes unrecognizable, says Lloyd, “that’s a tragedy, and any effort to make complete sense of it is bound to fail.”
Book Interview | Elizabeth Graver Tells the Family Story Behind ‘Kantika’
In Kantika, Rebecca—who is both a dressmaker and a beauty—is interested in manipulating surfaces and self-fashioning.
Memoir | Digging Deeper
I knew that not all Jewish guys my age could be callow, shallow and immature, but eventually it dawned on me that I had bigger obstacles than my Jews-only mindset.
Beshert | He Was Nothing Like I’d Pictured
I met my husband 33 years ago at a party for a physicist I didn’t know. My neighbor invited me to increase the estrogen quota....