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The Manhattan bookstore that wouldn't host her: Lihi Lapid on what October 7 did to Israeli authors

She landed every novelist's dream: a deal with HarperCollins, a Manhattan launch, a TV adaptation. Then May 2024 arrived, and not a single bookstore would have her.

Lihi Lapid on what October 7 did to Israeli authors
R.F. Kuang attends the Girls Write Now Awards 2024 at DVF Studio on Oct. 10, 2024, in New York City.

Backlash grows over Israeli character in R.F. Kuang’s upcoming novel 'Taipei Story'

The Irgun Museum in Tel Aviv.

'The Gavriel Tirosh Affair': Unforgettable teacher, lingering memory - review

From right: 2025 Sapir Prize debut winner Roni Partchek, honored for her novel “Sitara,” with Mifal HaPais CEO Adv. Beni Dreyfus, judging committee chair Dr. Ruth Calderon, Mifal HaPais board chair Itzik Lari, and 2025 Sapir Prize winner Amir Harash, awarded for “Bereavement and Failure and Zombies.

Amir Harash wins Sapir Prize for 2025; Roni Partchek takes debut award


American author Nicole Krauss receives prize for Jewish literature

Krauss was chosen by the Sami Rohr Prize panel of judges for her "valuable contribution to Jewish literature."

Nicole Krauss, the acclaimed author of The History of Love.

A.B. Yehoshua explores aging in new book with humor and humanity

Through Zvi’s story and his work history we also see Israel as it has changed, developed and aged since the Six Day War.

A. B. Yehoshua, a popular novelist, essayist and playwright, has been called ‘the Israeli Faulkner’ by ‘The New York Times.’

Book tells story of Israeli, Palestinian men who lost daughters in war

The title, Apeirogon, refers to a geometric figure with an infinite number of sides reflecting the many aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian/Arab conflict.

Children walk in front of a mural painted on part of Israel’s security barrier at the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem.

‘Homeland’ creators to adapt ‘Dinner at the Center of the Earth’ to TV

The book centers on a Prisoner Z who is being held at a secret prison site in Israel’s Negev Desert.

Man Watching TV

Publishing my father's novel was my alternative to Kaddish

My father left a nearly finished version of that book, The Bell Tower, on his computer, which my brother, Dave, emailed to me following my father’s death.

Walter Blum

Judy Blume's teen classic 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' turns 50

The coming-of-age classic, focuses on 11-year-old Margaret as she navigates puberty and questions her faith after growing up without a religious affiliation.

Judy Blume

Gruesome adaptation of Holocaust novel 'The Painted Bird’ now on demand

In the 1960s, the author Jerzy Kosiński’s suggested that the novel — about a Jewish boy who witnesses sexual deviance and violence during World War II — was autobiographical

Stellan Skarsgaard, left, as Hans in "The Painted Bird."

Novel races to top of Amazon after fans spot parallels with coronavirus

Dean Koontz's novel 'The Eyes of Darkness,' released in 1981, features a killer virus named 'Wuhan-400'.

Residents line up to collect vegetables purchased through group orders at a residential area in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Hubei province, China March 5, 2020.

The Holocuast Lover-a historical novel in two volumes

This historical novel by Matt Nesvisky, a former writer for both The Jerusalem Post and The Jerusalem Report, takes the reader on an emotional ride from the revolt at Sobibor to present day

The Holocaust Lover Matt Nesvisky Published independently 2018 397 pages; $12

French novelist published Holocaust denials and caricatures 30 years ago

“Everybody knows the camps never existed,” a caption alongside that caricature read.

Israel depicted as killing children in a Palestinian cartoon