Yona Zeldis McDonough
It began predictably enough: the first gray threads I found in my hair when I hit my thirties.
To Dye, or Not to Dye? That Is the Question
Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough
Jewish Woman, Muslim Man, and What This Unlikely Literary Pairing Produced
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A Jewish woman collaborates on a book with a Muslim man? Sounds like the start of a joke—except that it’s anything but.
Print is Dead
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Print is dead, or so the pundits have been telling us. And yet, in this electronic age when reading matter has been whittled down to fit on a smart phone, along comes Fig Tree Books, a brand new print publisher whose focus is the Jewish American experience.
What DID Nora know?
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Linda Yellin is a funny lady. To wit, her new novel, “What Nora Knew,” is crammed with snappy one-liners, snarky apercus and a whole lot of good-humored sass.
Who are the fools here?
Yona Zeldis McDonough
The expression “still waters run deep” could have been coined for Joan Silber.
Women and Mobsters in the Jazz Age
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Novelist Renee Rosen on the mobsters who were Jewish—and the women who loved them.
She’s a Writer. She’s Very Nosy.
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Lisa Gornick chats with Yona Zeldis McDonough about the ways in which the fields of literature and psychotherapy feed each other, the Jewish experience filtered through the lenses of Morocco and Peru, and the redemptive power of fire.
Mother, Photographer
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Elinor Carucci chats with Yona Zeldis McDonough about the tender and intimate collection of photographs that comprise her latest volume.
Our Long Lineage of Seers and Fortune-Tellers. Who Knew?
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Toby Devens on what Jewish and Korean moms have in common, her lifelong passion for music, and the pleasures of finding love in the middle ages.
Who Takes Out the Trash?
Yona Zeldis McDonough
In “Coming Clean,” Sue Margolis tackles the age-old dilemma of who takes out the trash, who does the laundry and who mops the floors—and what it all means.