In Maya Arad’s epistolary novel "Happy New Years", an Israeli immigrant writes annual Rosh Hashanah letters to her friends back home, masking the reality of her life in the... Read More

Amnesia and the complications of rebuilding a marriage inspire Anjet Daanje’s pensive historical novel "The Remembered Soldier", in which a Belgian veteran of the Great War... Read More

In Sergei Lebedev’s harrowing novel "The Lady of the Mine", murdered souls buried in an abandoned Ukrainian coal mine haunt the country’s emerging conflict with Russia. In... Read More

In Cécile Desprairies’s disquieting historical novel "The Propagandist", a woman reflects on her mother’s experiences as a World War II collaborator. Coline, Lucie’s... Read More

Cultures and generations clash in Maya Arad’s insightful novella collection "The Hebrew Teacher", which follows three storylines whose flows are sometimes concentric. Ilana is... Read More

Jean-Philippe Blondel’s delicate and delightful novel "Café Unfiltered" dips into the musings of several people who have gathered in a French café over the course of one... Read More

An aging Israeli academic reckons with his family’s crimes—and his own—in Agur Schiff’s novel Professor Schiff’s Guilt. Professor Schiff is in no way proud of the fact... Read More

Memory, family, and generational trauma guide Marina Jarre’s steps in her Holocaust memoir "Return to Latvia". Jarre was young when her parents separated. She left Latvia and... Read More

Stênio Gardel’s slim novel "The Words That Remain" includes fragments of sentences, memories, and moments, recounted by an aging, illiterate gay man whose struggle for... Read More

Pauline Baer de Perignon’s memoir concerns a years-long pursuit of the truth about her grandfather’s disappeared art and antiques collections––and about her own hushed... Read More

"Distant Fathers" is a memoir about displacement, disorientation, an identity fractured, and a family cracked by time, history, and the conditions and events of World War II... Read More

A heartwrenching and shocking work of historical fiction, Faysal Khartash’s "Roundabout of Death" focuses on the human cost of Syria’s civil war. Set in the coffee shops,... Read More