Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough

Even if something terrible happened, you were expected to tell the story as a comedy routine. 

Filled with brutality and despair, this is also a story of poetry and strength in which a brother and sister lose everything but each other.

In the email informing her friends of her death, Jonathan included some of her last writings. Reading them, I could hear her voice so clearly and although she had only been gone for a day or so, I already missed her so keenly.

Szilagyi speaks with Lilith’s fiction editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about Argentina’s Dirty War, its connection to the Holocaust, and her ongoing romance with food. 

She was a trailblazing feminist art historian revered or reviled for her landmark 1971 essay, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”

Fantasy and metaphor can be powerful tools when it comes to confronting difficult topics, especially when it comes to introducing these topics to young people. 

She was one of three women to open the first birth control clinic in the United States.

Jane Lazarre weaves personal memories with documentary materials to tell his fascinating history as a communist, a Jew, and a husband, father, and grandfather.

A mother describes the panic exploding in her chest when she hears that her son was arrested. Then she has a larger realization about prisons in the US.

The impetus for Judith Leiber’s exquisite mini-handbags came not from a carefully thought-out and executed design plan, but from a blooper.