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My second book, Becoming the Messiah, a biography of the seventh and last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, now has a pub date! Out October 29 from Yale University Press and available for preorder from all the usual places.

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The talk I gave the other week on my anthology is now online. Enjoy!

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My anthology is being read by the Yiddish Book Center's Great Jewish Books Club, and I'll be speaking (via Zoom) to book club members and anyone else who wants to join.

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I'm going to be on a panel on November 2 at Columbia talking about the great Polish sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem, along with Lem's English translator, Michael Kandel.

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Michael Chabon took home the prize, but I'm pleased that my book was named an honorable mention for the Sophie Brody Medal from the American Library Association.

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I'm very pleased that my book, "Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction From the Forward," was named a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the anthology cateogry. Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists!

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For the Boston Review I wrote about Yiddish Territorialism, the Jewish Autonomous Region of the USSR, and new books by Adam Rovner and Masha Gessen.

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For the Los Angeles Review of Books I wrote a long essay about the Polish sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem, and how his futuristic writing reflected the twentieth-century history in which it was produced.

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In Geveb gives my book its most thorough and in-depth review to date. Writes Eileen Pollack: Having read (in translation) most of Sholem Aleichem’s oeuvre, along with both Singers’ (Isaac Bashevis and Israel Joshua), and Chaim Grade’s, I fully expected that when I picked up the new anthology Have I Got a Story for You: More than a Century of Fiction from the Forward, I would discover at least a few gems. After all, the editor, Ezra Glinter, combed through 120 years’ of the archives of the foremost Yiddish-language newspaper in America to ferret out the strongest fiction. Even so, I was stunned by the unrelentingly high quality of all these stories. And who could have predicted that nearly half the authors would turn out to be female? If any up-and-coming literary scholars are searching for unjustly ignored feminist writers, yoo-hoo, here they are! All on its own, the table of contents of this anthology could provide the inspiration for eleven dissertations.

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It's an honor to have a piece in the inaugural issue of the Jewish Book Council's new literary journal, Paper Brigade. Go ahead, get yourself a copy!

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For Haaretz I wrote about Esperanto, the latest addition to my list of aspirational hobbies.

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Shelf Awareness calls my book "a fascinating and delightful collection of fiction."

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Thanks to Library Journal for including my book in its list for Jewish Book Month.

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Another excellent review of my book is in, this time from Jonathan Kirsch at the Los Angeles Jewish Journal. "Rich and Rewarding" he calls it!

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I don't know what to say about Trump that hasn't already been said, but it made me revisit this piece I wrote about the art critic John Berger. I should probably re-read him, as well.

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Leonard Cohen died yesterday at the age of 82. I haven't written anything about his death, but here's a piece I wrote two years ago for the Forward on the occasion of his 80th birthday. And another for the Paris Review.

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The Jewish Book Council posted this translation I did of an I.J. Singer story about an American Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in 1934. Ominous Stuff.