Sometime during this unprecedented year, Bay Area illustrator Meg Adler decided that what the world needed most was a coloring book. Not just any coloring book, mind you. It’s one that invites people of all ages to chime in with contributions of their own that push Adler’s vision to the next level. “It’s like a…
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Secrets kept, secrets revealed in two debut novels
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. When somebody close to us dies, we cannot predict the shadow that…
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SFSU professor wins Cowan literary prize for Biblical whodunnit
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. Journalist and San Francisco State University associate professor…
History
17th-century Jewish memoir offers a glimpse of life during a plague
More than 350 years ago, a plague took a deadly toll on Hamburg, Germany. As the High Holidays approached, fear and panic set in and many of the city’s…
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Goodbye book tours: new authors go virtual
In a normal year, the Jewish Book Council’s annual conference is something of a variety show where hundreds of authors take to the podium with two minutes…
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Travelogue of Jewish Latin America wins Natan Notable Book Award
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. In multiple trips between 2013 and 2017, llan Stavans visited and…
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Former San Franciscan recasts Russian Jewish family stories
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. Alina Sivorinovsky Wickham, who publishes under the nom de plume…
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New biographies paint portraits of two Jewish luminaries
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. We depend on biographies to bring giants to our level and offer us…
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She wrote the book on George Soros
Journalist Emily Tamkin’s comprehensive dive into the influence of George Soros is coming out into a very different world than she thought it would be…