It took Toronto-born Nessa Rapoport 26 years to complete ‘Evening,’ her successor novel to the critically acclaimed ‘Preparing for Sabbath.’ That’s the price you pay for being a perfectionist, she says
The 1965 Vatican Council, and subsequent efforts by the Church to reconcile with Judaism, did not win over Orthodox Jews, who believe that their reading of the Scriptures is correct – not the Christians'. A new book discusses these uneasy relations
Haaretz writers pick the books that have kept them entertained and enthralled this summer – from a book about alt-Hillary to one about the most amazing U.S. presidential race of the 20th century
Zvi Luria is losing a battle against dementia. But as he confronts the onset of oblivion, in A.B. Yehoshua’s masterful latest novel, ‘The Tunnel,’ he also discovers the satisfaction that comes with newfound freedoms
Jack Fairweather spent five years working on his book ‘The Volunteer,’ about a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated and also broke out of the Nazi death camp. He tells Haaretz what its hero, Witold Pilecki, can teach us today in our own time of disunity and distrust
Lisa Napoli’s fascinating new book recounts how newscast-hating Ted Turner launched CNN with a group of newshounds – and a few antisemitic slurs along the way
How did Yiddish-speaking factory worker Rose Pastor marry into one of America’s richest families yet end up dying a pauper? A new book by Adam Hochschild, ‘Rebel Cinderella,’ recounts her remarkable story
Kafka’s protagonists in 'The Trial' and other works were persecuted because of forgetfulness, but sometimes forgetting actually enables redemption
Bess Kalb’s touching and funny Jewish memoir ‘Nobody Will Tell You This But Me’ is a matrilineal love story about a bubbe like no other. We sat down with her for a chat about turning her ‘personal grief exercise’ into a bestseller and upcoming film
Journalist Lawrence Wright’s novel ‘The End of October,’ about a planet-threatening pandemic, will haunt your thoughts and force you to examine your own behavior
In an autobiographical novel, French author Edouard Louis returns to a brutal and almost fatal one-night stand. He tells Haaretz why he understands his assailant's behavior – and how literature can influence reality
Nine books worthy of your consideration this year, including a novel about grieving Israeli and Palestinian fathers, and a tome celebrating Jewish genius (and anxiety)
In his book 'We Are the Weather,' Jonathan Safran Foer explains why the climate crisis is failing to stir emotions and social change. But Judaism may offer a solution
‘I wanted to give it to him on his 80th birthday, but he died on me,’ says David Kroyanker, author of ‘The Jerusalem of Amos Oz’
Goldsmith Salomone da Sesso was renowned as the jeweler of Lucrezia Borgia. Now, an Israeli historian has unearthed the sinister plot that made him adopt a new religion
In the last of a quartet of novels, Sayed Kashua grapples with identity, exile, lies, loneliness and longing – both his and his protagonist's
A new book examines how, nearly a century ago, a small town in upstate New York saw an actual blood libel, where the residents were ready to entertain the notion that their Jewish neighbors had kidnapped a young child for a ritual sacrifice
Aleksandra Brushtein's books, set in Czarist Russia, gained cult status among Soviet Jews
Celebrating Hanukkah and Christmas growing up was my norm, but discussing my family interfaith traditions sometimes made me feel isolated
In an age of populism and virulent nationalism, Prof. Yael (Yuli) Tamir’s new book 'Why Nationalism' deftly explores issues that the liberal elites have ignored and the extreme right has exploited for its own ends