#whatireadovershabbat Steven Weitzman’s The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age If you want what the title seems to...

My translation of Hebrew writer Abraham Regelson's story "Manual Labor" appears in the Spring 2023 issue of Exchanges.

#whatireadovershabbat Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (trans. John E. Woods) I didn’t read The Magic Mountain in one Shabbat. Yes, the...

#whatireadovershabbat Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince (trans. George Bull) This one was drier than I expected. For all its reputation as...

#whatireadovershabbat Elie Wiesel's Night, translated by Marion Wiesel (1956; Hill and Wang, 2006) Each year that passes puts us at...

#whatireadovershabbat Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, translated by Michael R. Katz (1866; Liveright, 2017) The Russian novel...

#whatireadovershabbat James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916; Modern Library, 1996) There’s no Künstlerroman more...

#whatireadovershabbat Roberto Calasso's The Celestial Hunter, translated by Richard Dixon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) The Celestial...

#whatireadovershabbat William Golding's The Inheritors (1955; Mariner Books, 1963) Best known for his high school English classic, Lord...