Hanna R. Neier
Tears are how we mourn; laughter is how we survive.
A Novel Tackles Laughter and Loss
Tag: fiction
Buried Under Years of Dust: An Interview with Valerie Gilpeer and Emily Grodin
Yona Zeldis McDonough
“Please do not constrict autistic people. We can only grow as much as the environment around us.”
“Milk Fed:” A Tuna-Flavored Take on Sex, Life & Fiction
Shayna Goodman
Broder’s latest novel, Milk Fed, is a reclaiming of tuna salad identity. If tuna is obtrusively smelly, ethnically distinct, and unsexy, in Milk Fed, Broder gives it an overt and lively sexuality.
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.
Call for Submissions: Black and Jewish Fiction
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Writers of color: polish up that short story, flash fiction piece, or novel excerpt and submit today!
A New Translation of a Yiddish Comic Gem
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A Yiddish novelist who is brazen and frank about the unequal power dynamics between men and women in intimate relationships.
A Novel About Women, Science, Ambition— and Love
Chanel Dubofsky
“Unlikeable” female characters should probably just be called “characters.”
The Light After the War: Jews in Caracas
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Two best friends jump off a train heading for Auschwitz, leaving their mothers still on board.
Real Life Mysteries: A Lost Voice and Communication With the Dead
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Everyone loves a great mystery on the page, but what about in real life?
The Fraught and Frayed Bonds of Sisterhood
Yona Zeldis McDonough
I wanted the characters in The Wartime Sisters to be imperfect and layered, to make good and bad choices, to be difficult, to fail, and also to grow. It’s important to me that people recognize pieces of themselves and their family members when they read about Ruth and Millie.