These stories deserve a cherished place in the canon of Jewish literature. Oedipus in Brooklyn gathers stories and personal essays from Blume Lempel, a Yiddish-speaking refugee who escaped the Holocaust in America but who never stopped... Read More

A small triumph, a growing awareness, a pleasant irony: these stories draw forth satisfaction. The nine stories in Sam Allingham’s Great American Songbook are a brilliant array of forms, character and relationship types, prose styles,... Read More

With images as vivid and searing as a cattle brand, this is an exquisitely crafted book, and one to be savored. The discovery of the remains of a long-missing local man is the hinge that opens the door of Allen Morris Jones’s... Read More

"The Murdered Messiah" skillfully recasts Jesus as a man whose peaceful dissidence revealed the meaning of biblical love. Son of God, radical, enigma, rabbi, martyr—Jesus of Nazareth has long fascinated believers and nonbelievers. In... Read More

"Manage Your Financial Life" may have a target audience among women, but it’s an excellent comprehensive financial management plan for anyone. In "Manage Your Financial Life", financial analyst and consultant Nancy Doyle argues that... Read More