What to Read Next: THE BIELSKI BROTHERS
A true story of three remarkable Jewish brothers, Tuvia, Zus and Asael Bielsky, who with ingenuity and guts, compassion and enforcement,...
Introducing "What to Read Next"
I'm going to assume that you don't need me to outline the plot of a given book. That you're interested in a quick, personal take. I'm...
Capsule Review: GRACE STREET
In Grace Street: A Sister's Memoir of Grief and Gratitude, author Maureen Callahan Smith grants us a window into the way life can...
Finding True North (even when it's called South)
Let us suppose that an era comes, an era of undetermined length, where words come unmoored from meaning. A word like “compassionate” say....
You Are Here Now: What Mothers Do
In the foyer of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson hung maps. All the continents are there, Africa, Asia and so on, cartographed as they were...
Why Stories Matter, Especially Now
We are in tumultuous times and it is easy to dismiss art, music, writing, maybe particularly writing fiction, as a luxury. I think it is...