Judith Shulevitz

In a new book, Elaine Pagels searches for the narrative origins of Jesus’s most wondrous acts.

Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters rescues a destroyed world.

In her novels, the South Korean Nobel laureate returns again and again to her country’s bloody past.

In a new novel, France’s famously abrasive author progresses from barbed satire to a spiritual-conversion narrative.

Long a fearless critic of Israel, Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi has made wrenching portraits of her nation’s suffering since October 7.

A close look at the words being shouted at protests on campuses across the country reveals why some see the pro-Palestinian cause as so threatening.

The brilliant novels of Helen Garner depict her generation’s embrace of freedom, but also the sad consequences.

In her hands, the Book of Genesis becomes a precursor to the novel.

George Eliot took up the question of Jewish self-determination in her last novel, <em>Daniel Deronda</em>, and arrived at a surprising answer.

In a haunted novel, memories of a brutal past transform bodies as well as psyches.