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.

In her new novel, "The Vaster Wilds," Lauren Groff tells the story of a girl escaping a colonial outpost and finding herself enveloped in the natural world.

A newly published book by the novelist Susan Taubes further reveals her struggle to make herself whole.

Art transcends the artist.

His enchanting new novel is a triumph.

Hanif Kureishi’s tweets from his sickbed are a bravura performance that is no performance at all.

In his new book, Ted Conover moves to a remote valley in southern Colorado to experience 21st-century life off the grid.

The Problem With Mothers and Daughters  The Atlantic

Living in Turkey has made the author a master of the genre.

The death of the British novelist is occasion to remember her genius as well as the chronic illness that shaped her work.

Tom Perrotta reassesses his ’90s antihero.