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Acclaimed author Etgar Keret speaks to What Matters Now host Jessica Steinberg for this week's podcast. (Courtesy)
What Matters Now podcast
Etgar Keret: Celebrated author feels the world is losing its story
By Jessica Steinberg
Leading voice in Israeli literature discusses the art of writing since October 7, dealing with social media via Substack and his new role directing an MFA program in New York
Acclaimed author Etgar Keret speaks to What Matters Now host Jessica Steinberg for this week's podcast. (Courtesy)
June 24, 2026, 10:30 pm
Etgar Keret: Celebrated author feels the world is losing its story
Leading voice in Israeli literature discusses the art of writing since October 7, dealing with social media via Substack and his new role directing an MFA program in New York
By Jessica Steinberg
Yishai Ishi Ron, author of the award-winning novel 'Dog,' appears on the May 19 What Matters Now podcast (Courtesy)
May 19, 2026, 10:27 pm
Yishai Ishi Ron: Ex-commando writes novels about trauma and recovery
Award-winning author of ‘Dog’ discusses PTSD and how writing aided his healing process
By Jessica Steinberg
Interior view of the new National Library of Israel, 2023. (Iwan Baan/File)
May 13, 2026, 11:18 am
Four authors named as finalists for Sami Rohr Prize
Jewish literature awards ceremony, held in association with National Library, to take place in Jerusalem this July
By Jessica Steinberg
FILE - Author R.F. Kuang poses for a portrait near Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
May 6, 2026, 12:48 am
Anti-Israel novelist’s new book includes minor Israeli character, prompting online backlash
Rebecca ‘R. F.’ Kuang is accused of ‘normalizing Israel,’ following leak of excerpt from ‘Taipei Story’ in which an unnamed musician is identified as Israeli; some cancel preorders
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Writer Judy Lev, author of 'Bethlehem Road,' 12 short stories about life in Jerusalem's Baka neighborhood. (Courtesy)
January 23, 2026, 8:15 am
‘New immigrant’ since 1967 pens ode to Jerusalem’s Baka neighborhood in anthology
Author Judy Lev brings her former haunt of nearly 40 years to life in ‘Bethlehem Road,’ with 12 vibrant tales that transcend time — but not place
By Jessica Steinberg
Jean Meltzer, author of 'The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah.' (Courtesy)
December 19, 2025, 10:02 am
Let Jean Meltzer’s new Hanukkah-themed romance put the spark in your Festival of Lights
The American Jewish author and onetime rabbinical student adds to the winter holiday canon with ‘The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah,’ the People of the Book’s answer to ‘A Christmas Carol’
By Rich Tenorio
In 'Boy from the North Country,' Sam Sussman writes about his mother's real-life romance with Bob Dylan. (Penguin Random House; author photo by Ben Kaplan via JTA)
September 12, 2025, 2:04 pm
Sam Sussman’s novel turns mystery of whether Bob Dylan is his father into ode to his mother
In ‘Boy from the North Country,’ the writer leverages his real-life uncertain paternity into a fictional exploration of his late mother’s wisdom, finding a legacy deeper than celebrity
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Writer and pro-Israel, pro-Jewish advocate Pat Johnson in Vancouver, May 2025. (Courtesy)
June 29, 2025, 2:13 am
Gay liberal Canadian writer takes fellow non-Jews to task, one acerbic essay at a time
Furious about antisemitism and unfair targeting of Israel, journalist Pat Johnson says Jews today need increasingly more support. His Substack paves the way
By Robert Sarner
Writer Bernard-Henri Lévy will speak at the opening event of Jerusalem International Writers Festival, May 18. 2025. (Credit Alexis Duclos)
April 14, 2025, 11:32 pm
Bernard-Henri Lévy to open Writers Fest, Book Forum in Jerusalem in May
Jerusalem Prize to be awarded to French author Michel Houellebecq, who has written about France becoming Islamic
By Jessica Steinberg
'The Last Dekrepitzer' by National Jewish Book Award winner Howard Langer. (Courtesy/ Barbara Jaffe)
April 2, 2025, 12:23 pm
Fiddling with writing, lawyer pens award-winning book about busking rabbi in NYC
Winning the National Jewish Book Award for his debut novel ‘The Last Dekrepitzer’ at age 74, banjo-playing law prof Howard Langer says it’s not always about writing what you know
By Cathryn J. Prince
Zibby Books publisher Zibby Owen, third from left, front row, with some of the contributors to 'On Being Jewish Now,' an anthology that came out in October 2024, at Zibby's Book Shop, Santa Monica, California (Courtesy Innis Casey Photography)
December 8, 2024, 9:15 am
As Jews continue to digest October 7, anthologies offer a buffet of food for thought
Female-powered collections explore life in the US and antisemitism, provide succor and hope with prayers and poems, and retell the stories of heroic Jewish women
By Jessica Steinberg
Author and native New Yorker Sarah Seltzer, left, and the cover of her debut novel 'The Singer Sisters.' (Kurt Sneddon/Flatiron Books/ via JTA)
August 27, 2024, 1:07 am
In new book ‘The Singer Sisters,’ a Jewish rock music family finds sex, drugs – and deli
While some of the most iconic folk legends of the ’60s and ’70s were Members of the Tribe, author Sarah Seltzer’s fictional dynasty’s drama strikes a particularly Jewish chord
By Gabe Friedman
Author Gabrielle Zevin speaks about her bestseller 'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' during the 28th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California on April 22, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images via JTA)
July 26, 2024, 4:43 am
How author Gabrielle Zevin has become a literary scapegoat for anti-Israel activists
Reflecting a wider trend since October 7, the writer has been accused of being a Zionist, and therefore, worthy of a boycott — most recently by a Chicago bookstore’s book club
By Andrew Lapin
Novelist John Irving speaks at the Mishkenot Sha'ananim cultural center in Jerusalem, July 3, 2024. (Ethan Freedman/Times of Israel)
July 4, 2024, 1:52 pm
After 40 years, novelist John Irving returns to Jerusalem, where new novel is partly set
Award-winning author speaks at the Mishkenot Sha’ananim cultural center, nostalgic about his time in Israel but not revealing much about about his work-in-progress ‘Queen Esther’
By Ethan Freedman
Novelist John Irving was scheduled to appear at the upcoming Jerusalem Writers Festival opening May 27, 2024, but had to cancel his in-person appearance due to a bout of COVID-19. (Courtesy: Derek O'Donnell)
May 26, 2024, 9:51 am
Novelist John Irving cancels long-awaited Israel visit due to COVID-19
Author was coming for Jerusalem Writers Festival and to work on final chapter of latest book, ‘Queen Esther,’ set in 1980s Jerusalem; now. he’ll do a Zoom interview for festival
By Jessica Steinberg
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