Recent stories by this author

The Book on Love

May. 16, 2006
As a young man in Poland, Leo Gursky fell in love and wrote a novel called The History of Love. Sixty years later, we find him in New York, a locksmith living alone in a small apartment. His novel, meanwhile, has made its way to Chile, where it is published under a different man's name.

Beware of God

Apr. 3, 2006
In his book of short stories, Beware of God, Shalom Auslander kicks and screams at all things divine, yet can never quite let go.

I Have Just Arrived: New Voices

Mar. 21, 2006
Naama Goldstein & Lara Vapnyar arrived on the American literary scene at almost the same time, both publishing highly praised short-story collections in 2004. Their characters, too, tend to be recent arrivals, making the best of new lands and new situations.

Barney Ross: Not Without a Fight

Mar. 9, 2006
At 13, Barney Ross saw his father murdered, his mother suffer a nervous breakdown, and his three younger siblings sent to an orphanage. He became a petty thief, a gambler, a messenger boy for Al Capone, and a professional boxer.

From Holocaust to Haven

Mar. 1, 2006
In 1944, Harold Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior, asked journalist Ruth Gruber to lead a secret mission to escort 1,000 Jewish refugees from Italy to America. After WWII she worked as a correspondent in Europe and Palestine, where she became an advocate for Jews in DP camps.

Hot & Bothered: An Evening in Bed

Feb. 8, 2006
A man dials a number scrawled on the men's room wall and discovers just how painful a good time can be; a Jewish woman falls for a Philo-Semitic skinhead; a young poet finds that the only way to stimulate her beau is to moan, "You are Edmund Wilson! You are Edmund Wilson! You're, you're...

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