In seventeenth-century Poland, a rabbi takes on the education of a kingThe Polish monarch has outlawed a portion of the Jewish funeral rite, and none of the community’s lawyers, judges, or scholars wi
A witty and wry satire of New Age searchers, our spiritual longings, and our earthbound naturesMartha is thirty, and her life has stalled. Her last boyfriend turned cruel long before he left her, her
“Francine Prose is one of a handful of truly indispensable American writers.” —Gary ShteyngartThe Glorious Ones are an unlikely troupe—there’s Armanda, the cheerful dwarf and ex-nun; chattering Columb
Revelations of the mysterious, contradictory heart of everyday lifeIt’s one thing for your husband to leave you for another woman, but how is a person supposed to feel when the man of her dreams aband
