Fishing With Tardelli: A Memoir of Family in Time Lost by Neil Besner
Fishing With Tardelli contemplates the relations among four parents ― mother, father, stepfather, and a Brazilian fishing companion ― and the author.
Michael Greenstein
The Singing Forest by Judith McCormack
In attempting to bring a suspected war criminal to justice, a lawyer wrestles with power, accountability, and her Jewish identity.
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and a shape-shifting epic. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.
Shape Taking: Poems by Elana Wolff
The poems in Shape Taking tend to the betwixt, beyond and out of bounds. They speak to living, dreaming and imagining in times of inner and global flux; seek connectivity in disparate things, and contend with the unreasonableness of miracle. They want to believe, with work, that the brain can change.
Qorbanot: Offerings by Alisha Kaplan, Art by Tobi Aaron Kahn
A collaboration between poet Alisha Kaplan and artist Tobi Aaron Kahn, Qorbanot--the Hebrew word for sacrificial offerings--explores the concept of sacrifice, offering a new vision of an ancient practice.
Brought Down by Simon Constam
Characterized by the admission of doubt in God’s desire for a better world, and willing to see Jewish tradition as indispensable, Brought Down struggles with daily life as a firm believer and continuing pride in Jewish identity. In the great Jewish tradition of holding God to account, and not relenting in anger towards Him, the themes in this book are universal: faith, religious practice, forgiveness, history, and the relevance of belief.