A new biography of the author of A Tomb for Boris Davidovich gives form to the traumas—from the Holocaust to Titoist Communism—that made up his. . .

More than Saul Bellow or Philip Roth, James Salter (né Horowitz) captures the situation of assimilated American Jews—by never writing from a Jewish perspective.

Dara Horn’s newest novel, A Guide for the Perplexed, is a high-stakes thriller married to an intensely moving meditation on history, memory, and the possibility. . .

Serious fiction today is almost entirely devoid of religiously informed understanding; can readers and writers reverse the tide?

Forty years after it was written, an Isaac Bashevis Singer story about generational and cultural misunderstanding produces a similar misunderstanding in the students who read it.

“If you want to learn about life in 20th-century urban America, and the Jewish experience in particular, . . . Bellow’s work should be the first port of call.”

An illustrated edition of three short stories by the late Israeli Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon unearths the myriad classical allusions in the text.

A new collection of Kafka short stories retold for children is scarier than any fairy tale—but only for parents.

Critics routinely dismiss Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar as lowbrow literature; but no other American work of fiction has so successfully told the story of a. . .

The virulently anti-Israel views of the author of The Color Purple are but one part of larger musings on the “root of the incredible evil. . .