The music of Chopin brings together a mysterious young Hungarian Holocaust survivor and an American music student. But just when romance is in the air, he vanishes. ...
f it weren’t for the slice of Ebinger’s Blackout Cake wrapped in cellophane and sitting in the fridge behind a
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“Have you heard about the movie?” Dorota asked. “What movie?” said Sylwia. Why, she thought, am I always the last to know? ...
"Why does the mother persist with the song sheets and the records? No one knows the answer. But still, she passes them out, and still they groan, and in the meantime, the songs work their way into the brain circuitry of the children." ...
Lev returns from the park eager for breakfast. He pulls his chair across the tired linoleum and calls out, “Won’t you join me? Your show can wait.” He hates the way he sounds, like a grown man coaxing a cat from a tree... ...
Years went by, one lavishly slow day at a time, with hot summers, when we baked our bodies at the beach down the street or, on an occasional excursion, on the sands at Asbury Park or Bradley Beach some hours south of home, where we swam also in the pungent ...
I am 22 and pregnant, which means I’m not a teen statistic, but you can chalk me up to the idiot percentages who think they know what they’re doing with a condom. When I was a kid, I planned my future around a timeline like the one I’m in. Then ...
We recently caught up with Ruchama King Feuerman, whose story “A Beggar’s Place” was our 2011 second-place winner. Since then,
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An Excerpt from the novel Congregation Eli Stone steadied the pages of his sermon against the motion of the car
...argalit winds her way out of her small city, barely glancing at the well-tended cottages of Mevaseret Tzion, flower beds
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It’s a picture in one of 13 shoeboxes of pictures. 1973. Two middle-aged men stand leaning forward against the top
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Books in Brief: Senior editor Eileen Lavine reviews new and forthcoming titles A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski (translated from the
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