Yona Zeldis McDonough
A novel about generational trauma and how it affects both the present and the future.
Forget Russia: a Q&A with L. Bordetsky-Williams
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A Q&A with Jennifer Robson, Author of “Our Darkest Night”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A 1942 novel about an Italian Jewish woman trying to survive the Holocaust with the family of farmers who take her in.
Saving Leonardo de Vinci’s “Lady with the Ermine”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A novel that traces the fraught journey of Leonardo de Vinci’s famous <em>Lady with the Ermine</em>, and how this priceless work of art was ultimately saved from the Nazis. </p>
A Profound Posthumous Novel from a Very Late Bloomer
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Jerusalem as a Second Language, Distelheim’s second novel, is out from Audbade on September 29, 2020 but sadly, Distelheim died on June 1 and didn’t get to savor the praise that is sure to come for her sophomore effort.
Friendships and Race: A New Orleans Coming of Age Story
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Iris Martin Cohen talks to Yona Zeldis McDonough about how her Jewish protagonist fits into this very Catholic world in her novel “Last Call on Decatur Street.”
Daphne Merkin on the Nature of Love and Lust
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Daphne Merkin on her new book 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love and the nature of lust, love and whether the two can ever truly be reconciled.
Nostalgia for the 1939 World’s Fair
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Yona Zeldis McDonough chats with author Susie Orman Schnall about her entertaining new summer read, “We Came Here to Shine”.
Is Rape a Crime? A Conversation with Michelle Bowdler
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Michelle Bowdler talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about what her book Is Rape a Crime: A Memoir, an Investigation and a Manifesto has meant for her—and what she hopes it will mean to others.
“Better Things:” Your Jewish and Frankly Feminist Review
Sharrona Pearl
Time, in the world of this funny, melancholic, and moving show about raising three daughters as a divorced single mom in LA, is progressing
Stitching for Survival: the Story of Holocaust Survivor Trudie Strobel
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Some artists work with a brush; others with a pen, and still others with their voices, bodies, or a musical instrument. Trudie Strobel’s instrument is a slender needle, and she wields it with fierce and incredible power.