- We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir, Raja Shehadeh Father and son lawyers share goals, but are unable to appreciate each other’s politics.
- A Day In The Life of Abed Salama, Nathan Thrall. An account of daily life in the occupied West Bank.
- Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad. A West Bank production of Hamlet explores the challenge of theater-making under occupation.
- Land of Hope and Fear, Isabel Kershner. A mosaic portrait of Israeli society at the height of Israel’s protests against the judicial overhaul.
- The Heaven And Earth Grocery Store, James McBride. A saga about intertwined Black and Jewish communities banding together in rural Pennsylvania.
- Hope, Andrew Ridker. A send-up of a seemingly perfect Boston Jewish family as it unravels over the course of a year.
- The Postcard, Anne Berest. Part fiction, part memoir, a mystery of four ancestors murdered at Auschwitz.
- The Best of Everything, Rona Jaffe. A reissue of the 1958 cult classic: Five young secretaries trying to make it in New York City.
- Lies and Sorcery, Elsa Morante. Available in English this year, these stories explore women’s inner lives.
- The World And All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon. The life of a Sephardic Jew upended by the start of WWI.
- I Must Be Dreaming, Roz Chast. The New Yorker cartoonist produces an illustrated catalogue of her dreams.
- The Cost Of Free Land, Rebecca Clarren. Journalist explores how her Jewish ancestors displaced the Lakota for settlers like her family.
- Fatherland, Burkhard Bilger. The New Yorker writer investigates his grandfather’s time as a Nazi Party chief in France.
- Portico: Cooking And Feasting In Rome’s Jewish Kitchen, Leah Koenig. Celebrating Shabbat in Rome, a Jewish food scene distinct from Ashkenazi and Sephardic cousins.
- The Everlasting Meal Cookbook, Tamar Adler. An alphabetized lexicon of leftovers and how to use them, including spare fish heads…
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