Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough

Amy Sue Nathan’s sharp-eyed look at how the blog culture has changed our lives is a smart, stylish read. Here’s an excerpt from “The Good Neighbor.”

Jillian Cantor’s new novel focuses on the last five years in the life of Ethel Rosenberg.

“I Smile Back,” the film based on Amy Koppelman’s novel, opens commercially this month. 

Leah Lax on her life beneath the wig—and what it was like to emerge from it, uncovered, after so long.

I buy nothing new. Why should I? Sadie, Mollie, Esther and Bunny and their pals have already provided me with everything I ever wanted—and more.

Just as the topic of professor/student relationships is heating up, novelist Susan Shapiro offers her own take on the highly charged subject in her captivating new novel, What’s Never Said. 

A Q&A with Lisa Gornick, author of Louisa Meets Bear. 

What do you believe? Why? Is faith a certainty, fixed and immutable, or is it an ongoing process, and evolution of the spirit and the soul? Who has faith and how did she get it? These are just some of the questions that began to tug at Victoria Zackheim, editor of the new anthology Faith.

How many can lay claim to a phrase like “Who do you think you are—Sarah Bernhardt?”

When Glenn Kurtz happened upon an old family film in a closet of his parents’ home in Florida, he was intrigued.