Books & Literature

By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — If you love something but can't possess it, you write about it. This, the...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If you like clever short stories about unhappy, frustrated or lonely people, you'll love Notes from...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER You have to be pretty special for chef Wolfgang Puck to stop in to make your...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER "I ought not to be here." More than a decade into a prosperous, busy life in...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER In 1654, the first Jews reached what would become the United States, and — surprise, surprise...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Was King David a real person? Three archaeologists say evidence at a hilltop overlooking Israel's Elah...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Tenacious investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who famously exposed the My Lai massacre and abuse at Abu...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Fondness for detective stories isn't necessary to enjoy Matt Goldman's clever, funny second Nils Shapiro murder...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Few authors could make the lives of two 20th century French women lovers as spellbinding as...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER It’s difficult to review a book so insightful, sensitive and sensible that you want to quote...