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

Horror-film buffs will appreciate the irony and impressive knowledge the zombie possesses of pop-culture representations of the living dead through the years. Threats of a zombie apocalypse seem to be around every corner, but what’s... Read More

A former boxer crosses paths, and lines, with the notorious Max Baer, in this imaginative semihistorical novel. With "Max Baer and the Star of David", Jay Neugeboren creates a pair of distinctive fictional characters and deposits them... Read More

This emotionally moving tribute gives insight into how Jackie Robinson affected the racial climate of Brooklyn and the nation. Breaking Ground: How Jackie Robinson Changed Brooklyn, by Alan Lelchuk, uses both memoirist and historian eyes... Read More

Lelchuk’s metatextual approach to the mystery of Raoul Wallenberg realistically blends the line of fact and fiction. The fate of Raoul Wallenberg has remained a mystery for seventy years, and Alan Lelchuk’s novel "Searching for... Read More