#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...

#whatireadovershabbat Aaron Lansky's Outwitting History: The Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books (Algonquin Books,...

#whatireadovershabbat Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place (1988; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000) We’ve all at some point been a tourist. To...

#whatireadovershabbat Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery (1901; Penguin, 1986) You can read this book on many levels. As literature,...

#whatireadovershabbat Aida Levy-Hussen's How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of...