#whatireadovershabbat J. W. von Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther (trans. Stanley Corngold) When it first appeared in 1774, The...

#whatireadovershabbat Voltaire’s Candide, or Optimism (trans. Burton Raffel) Doesn’t everything work out for the best? That’s the...

הוֹי, מִי יָחוּשׁ עֲתִידוֹת, מִי זֶה יוֹדִיעֵנִי אִם לֹא הָאַחָרוֹן בִּמְשׁוֹרְרֵי צִיוֹן הִנֵּנִי, אִם לֹא גַּם אַתֶּם הַקּוֹרְאִים...

#whatireadovershabbat Pierre Bayard’s How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read (trans. Jeffrey Mehlman) In this charming book, Bayard...

#whatireadovershabbat Tom Dent's Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement In 1991, Tom Dent took a nine-month road trip to...

#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...