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Marianne Williamson seen on day three of Summit LA17 in Downtown Los Angeles's Historic Broadway Theater District on Sunday, November 5, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
December 1, 2018, 2:24 am
Jewish New Age guru stakes her claim for 2020 presidential run
Self-help author Marianne Williamson says she wants to help a wounded nation heal itself; quotes Herzl urging a new ‘blossoming of the Jewish spirit’
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Martin Fletcher, former NBC correspondent in Israel and author of 'Promised Land.' (Courtesy)
November 24, 2018, 1:33 am
Former NBC correspondent’s new novel is a love letter to the Jewish homeland
Martin Fletcher spent decades as an objective journalist in Israel. Now he just wants readers to think, ‘This is a great place worth supporting, with all its faults’
By Cathryn J. Prince
In this March 28, 1977 file photo, William Goldman accepts his Oscar at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, for best screenplay from other medium for 'All The President's Men.' Goldman, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' and 'All the President’s Men,' died, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. He was 87. (AP Photo, File)
November 16, 2018, 7:48 pm
Who was that guy?! The diverse genius of William Goldman
Novelist, playwright, coruscating non-fiction writer, screenwriter of comedies, of thrillers, of president-ousting investigative journalism, his stories defied indifference
By David Horovitz
Rena Rossner, author of 'The Sisters of the Winter Wood,' September 20, 2018, in the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim in the West Bank. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
September 23, 2018, 4:17 am
Book world’s hot new fantasy author is an Orthodox Jew with a magical shtetl
Judaism is the jumping off point for Rena Rossner’s ‘The Sisters of the Winter Wood,’ a Yiddish-inflected retelling of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The Facebook invitation from Resling Publishing for their April 24 soft launch of Huriya in Tel Aviv
September 21, 2018, 1:40 am
After protest, publisher pulls unlicensed Hebrew translation of Arab writers
Israel’s Resling Publishing under fire for publishing, ‘Huriya,’ a translated collection of Arab women authors, without their consent
By Jessica Steinberg
French journalist Noémie Halioua, author of 'L'affaire Sarah Halimi' (Hannah Assouline/Editions du Cerf)
September 16, 2018, 6:04 am
Journalist investigates wholesale denial of pivotal anti-Semitic murder in Paris
French writer Noémie Halioua’s book, ‘L’affaire Sarah Halimi,’ dives into the vicious homicide of a Jewish woman that French authorities resisted calling a hate crime
By Robert Sarner
Journalist and author Stephen Shepard. (Courtesy)
August 22, 2018, 11:51 pm
Media giant traces secular Jewish roots in the leaves of great American authors
Promoting his new book, former editor-in-chief of Business Week, Stephen Shepard, says writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth ‘make it okay’ to be a non-religious Jew
By Rich Tenorio
This 2001 file photo shows British author V.S. Naipaul in Salisbury, England. (Chris Ison/PA via AP)
August 12, 2018, 5:08 am
Nobel-winning author V.S. Naipaul dead at 85
Novelist, at times derided for bigoted and misanthropic views, was nonetheless hailed for his works’ exploration of colonialism, exile and belonging
By SYLVIA HUI
Argentian writer Liliana Heker (second from right) applauded after her play was performed at the International Writer's festival in Jerusalem in May 2010 (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
August 3, 2018, 6:43 am
Bi-annual Jerusalem book fests join forces to become yearly event
The Jerusalem International Book Fair and the International Writers Festival are now the annual Jerusalem International Book Forum, bringing authors and publishers together
By Jessica Steinberg
Michael Frank, author of award-winning memoir, 'The Mighty Franks.' (Courtesy)
July 23, 2018, 2:05 am
This award-winning memoir is a Greek tragedy with a Jewish twist
Wingate Prize winner ‘The Mighty Franks’ is about author Michael Frank’s tight-knit family that’s so close it hurts
By JP O’ Malley
Film director Stanley Kubrick, in an undated picture during production of 'The Shining.' (AP Photo)
July 21, 2018, 1:42 pm
Scholar reveals morbid roots of lost Stanley Kubrick script
Film expert Nathan Abrams shocks fans by unveiling nearly finished manuscript by Jewish director, based on book by author, Holocaust survivor, and suicide victim Stefan Zweig
By JP O’ Malley
Francine Klagsbrun
July 19, 2018, 3:53 pm
Francine Klagsbrun
Golda was a chain smoker
The solitary struggle to perfect a sentence has turned into a whirlwind to promote my biography of Israel’s 4th prime minister
Author Sarah Tuttle-Singer (right) is interviewed by journalist Matthew Kalman at a Times of Israel Presents event in Jerusalem, June 18, 2018. (Laura Ben-David)
June 19, 2018, 11:44 am
Author and social media guru emphasizes personal connection as route to peace
At the Jerusalem book launch of her ‘Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered,’ The Times of Israel’s Sarah Tuttle-Singer recounts first-person tales of humanity under duress
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
New York Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman on the streets of Srinagar, Kashmir, 2018. (courtesy)
June 2, 2018, 3:08 am
In memoir ‘Love, Africa,’ a NYT reporter shakes off the frat boy to become a man
Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Gettleman’s adventurous coming of age tale has all the Hollywood elements: brushes with death and the near-loss of his long-term love
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
'Mapping the Bones' is the third Holocaust-themed book by Jane Yolen. (Penguin Random House/Jason Stemple/via JTA)
March 17, 2018, 5:42 am
Author of ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ pens new young adult Holocaust novel
30 years ago, Jane Yolen wrote what turned out to be a bestselling educational hit. Now, hundreds of books later, the 79-year-old author has one for today’s teens
By Penny Schwartz
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