INTERVIEW
Lessons From the Prophets
By JESSE TISCH
An interview with Tony Kushner.

FICTION
A Final Roar from the Lion's Den
By BEZALEL STERN
Achtung! Agnon's post-WWI I opus is now available in English.

FICTION
Lot's Daughter
By ADAM WILSON
A new novel makes heavy weather out identity, subjectivity, and meteorology.

ESSAY
My Father, the Linguist of Kurdistan
By ARIEL SABAR
An emotional international trip.

INTERVIEW
A Tough Call
By KEN GORDON
An emotional phone conversation with Pulitzer prizewinner, Philip Schultz.

INTERVIEW
Caution: Genre X-ing
Translated By JENNIFER ACKER
Borges on where poetry and philosophy meet.

NON-FICTION
The Accidental Naturalist
By HAIM WATZMAN
From Bialik to bird calls, Watzman reports.

NON-FICTION
A Book Borrowed From History
By RACHEL SOMERSTEIN
A reconsideration of E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel.

FICTION
Stories Told on the Way to Night and Fog
By SANFORD PINSKER
Is The North of God destined to become a classic? The professor has the grades.

ESSAY
Judicial Power and National Politics
By PATRICIA J. WOODS
Courts and gender in the religious-secular conflict in Israel.

Jewish book news and reviews from around the web.

Jewish poets, cornered

A "saucer" for the "overflowing cup of Vienna's tears."

Back in time

There's still something about Mary

The high priest of Jewish songwriters

Ask the Rabbi

Parents: Are you having trouble with your teenager? Then maybe Rabbi Sherre Hirsch has the answer! Rabbi Sherre has just published a book called We Plan, God Laughs: 10 Steps to Finding Your Divine Path When Life Is Not Turning Out Like You Wanted. If you if feels like God—in conjunction perhaps with your surly teen—is laughing at your plans, then tell us about it. If we like your question, you'll get a video response from Rabbi Sherre. How good's her word? We hear: Very.