Faith, Fiction, Friends

“The war endures in you,” writes poet Ayala Zarfjian, “It lingers in your capillaries, / in your arteries, / in your veins. / The war is a r...

The great-grandfather of Pauline Baer de Perignon was well known for his art collection, including his eye for the Impressionists. But his a...

Aaron is now in a retirement home in Israel. His granddaughter regularly visits, and he’s told her almost all the stories about his life and...

You’re eight years old. Your father wakes you up in the middle of the night and tells you to get dressed. Soon you find yourself, your four-...

I’m always on the lookout for new mystery series, and a few weeks ago I came across a fictional detective named Father Anselm, a brothe...

Haarlem, The Netherlands, September, 1939. A family of aging sisters, and an elderly father and aunt, listen to the assurances of the D...

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) was an Austrian-born poet, essayist, novelist and radio dramatist. Not as well known as other members of...

On Friday, my wife and I watched the 2010 movie “ Sarah’s Key ,” starring Kristin Scott Thomas and based on the novel by Tatiana de Rosna...

Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, dedicated a good deal of his writing life to the preservation of Y...