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Swedish Fishing: Jonathan Metzger Fails to Find New Ground

Corpses, Crooks, & Kreplach: Nicolas Racz’ “The Burial Society”

George Tabb’s “Playing Right Field” and David Bezmozgis’ “Natasha”

The Long Way Home: A Review of Paradise Lost

Sofa of Sages: Pearl Gluck’s Divan Inspiration

Favorite Dreidel Made in China, Neighbor’s Sidelocks Coveted, Simon Cowell Unimpressed by Bar Mitzvah Performance

Yuli Gerstel’s “My Terrorist”

Bugsy Siegel Benny Siegel’s right eye was found 15 feet away from its socket. The previous night Siegel had been sitting on a sofa in his mistress’s Beverly Hills home, flipping through the Los Angeles Times, when a .30 caliber army carbine bullet carried it there. A total of nine shots were fired through a…

Schloimie and Kreplach at the Movies

A Fable

“Wherefore it is not astonishing that with a million Hebrews, mostly Russian, in the city (one quarter of its population), perhaps half the criminals should be of that race….” —New York City Police Commissioner Theodore A. Bingham. Published in an august magazine in September 1908, Commissioner Bingham’s words sent New York’s Jews into a tizzy…

Sandi Dubowski’s “Trembling on the Road”

Eitan Gorlin’s “The Holy Land”

Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction From the Edge, edited by Paul Zakrzewski

Geraldo Unable to Grow Full Beard–Rejected by Jews, Bagel Agreement Violated