Yefim Shulman is a man of secrets. He is also a man who tries very […]
Thistlefoot, by GennaRose Nethercott
Isaac and Bellatine Yaga don’t know much about their heritage. A grandmother or great-grandmother came […]
Calling Ukraine, by Johannes Lichtman
Trigger warning for mentions of domestic violence. John Turner is a man at loose ends. […]
I Want You to Know We’re Still Here, by Esther Safran Foer
Esther Safran Foer’s family history, as related in I Want You to Know We’re Still […]
Good Citizens Need Not Fear, by Maria Reva
Technically, the apartment block at 1933 Ivansk Street, in Kirovka, Ukraine, does not exist. The […]
Solovyov and Larionov, by Eugene Vodolazkin
I don’t think that a lot of historians would like to have it pointed out […]
A Boy in Winter, by Rachel Seiffert
This brief novel by Rachel Seiffert has a misleading title. The boy in A Boy in Winter, Yankel, […]
Mother Country, by Irina Reyn
Trigger warning for rape. What should a mother do? Everyone has ideas about this, even […]
The Salt of the Earth, by Józef Wittlin
The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a strange creature. It spanned a huge swath of central and […]
The Winter Soldier, by Daniel Mason
If Gavrilo Princip had not fired the shot that started World War I, Lucius Krzelewski […]