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Russian in origin, stacked one inside the other, the brightly- painted, wooden Matryoshka dolls carry hidden messages. Their “schmaltzy” bodies may be interpreted as a symbol of fertility, a memory of simple past times, an image of a beloved “babushka,” a grandmother, wearing a…
A new memoir based on letters and conversations from friends and family, Star Crossed, by authors Heather Dune Macadam and Simon Worrall, brings to mind Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, the heartbreaking story of unrequited love and life unfulfilled. It’s 1940. Paris is under…
There are some fields that should not be churned up.” That’s the central message spoken by one of the characters in a bracing debut novel titled Fervor. Its author, Toby Lloyd, stirs up provocative topics and disentangles myths ranging from gender-roles to feminism, from academia to…
Built squarely on sturdy scaffolding, author Lauren Grodstein’s new novel titled We Must Not Think of Ourselves is a fictionalized recounting of daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Grodstein acknowledges the novel relies heavily on the factual Oneg Shabbat (Oyneg Shabes) Archive. Led by…
Some books remain mercifully forgotten; others linger in our memory for years. Stranger in the Desert, by brilliant new literary voice Jordan Salama, is an unforgettable family story exquisitely expressed to honor his uniquely mixed ancestors. The author is a Syrian, Iraqi, Argentinian,…
