Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough

Kim Brooks, author of “The Houseguest,” finds it interesting that Americans have done so little literary exploration of our passivity.

In “True Crime,” Harrison writes for the first time in almost two decades about her affair with her father, and how she has reckoned with the girl she once was.

“Because Jewish eating is very ritualized via the do’s and don’ts of keeping kosher, eating can feel morally laden and restrictive. Claire affirmatively eats bacon sometimes to be transgressive or to express anger at God.”

“I was intrigued by the feat that Esther carried off—saving her people—and I retold the story so that beauty and obedience weren’t her most important characteristics.”

“Véra was Vladimir’s everything: first reader, editor, secretary, cook, maid, mother of his child, even protector—it was rumored she carried a gun in her purse.”

The chilling backstory behind Yona Zeldis McDonough’s new novel. 

Vegetarian-Dietetic Cookbook: 400 Recipes Made Exclusively from Vegetables was written in Yiddish and published in 1938.

Smart yet tender, funny yet deep, The Book of Faith is a sly, witty send-up of squabble-filled synagogue politics.

Ellen Wallenstein documents their aging faces with a reverence and respect that will inspire our own.

Amy Ferris on the new collection “Shades of Blue: Writers on Depression, Suicide, and Feeling Blue.”