Yona Zeldis McDonough
Lynda Cohen Loigman: “As the story came together, I poured my frustration for all young women into its pages”
A Novel of Matchmaking, Then and Now
Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough
Unearthing One Woman’s Past in Jewish Rhodes
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Stella had a tragic encounter with one of the major cataclysms of the twentieth century when her entire community was deported to Auschwitz.
The British Aristocrats Who Admired the Nazis
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Hitler’s Girl is a groundbreaking history that reveals how, in the 1930s, authoritarianism nearly took hold in Great Britain as it did in Italy and Germany.
Brian Morton’s Memoir of His Complex Mother
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Brian Morton on trying to see his mother, Tasha Morton, in her full complexity.
In a Parallel World, Tweens and Moms Still Disagree
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Debut novelist Marcie Roman talks with Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about what it’s like to travel to an alternate universe, and what the experience can teach us about our own.
Martha Anne Toll on “Three Muses”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Debut novelist Martha Ann Toll talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about the redemptive power of art.
Maira Kalman Explores What Women Hold
Yona Zeldis McDonough
“It is not that men are not wonderful. But women somehow keep it all together.”
Emily Tamkin Talks “Bad Jews”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
“Antisemitism isn’t really about Jewish people and what we say and do; it’s about antisemites and their own hateful ideas.”
A Love Affair With Barthes’ Words
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Lilith’s Yona Zeldis McDonough talks to author Edie Meidav about her unique and transdisciplinary novel, Another Love Discourse.
A Girl During the War: A Story of Courage and Grit
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Anita Abriel, the author of novels set during World War II, on why she endows her young protagonists with such courage and grit.