Essays & Articles
Essays
- “The Most Important Writing Exercise I’ve Ever Assigned” appeared in The New York Times
- “Love and Restitution: the Vanished World of My Family’s Hotel” appeared in Jewish Quarterly’s February, 2022 issue (In Search of Lost Time)
- “Stepping Into My Characters’ Shoes: the Author of The Weight of Ink on Life During the Pandemic” appeared in Slate.
- “New Israeli Fiction: a Reluctant Bride, a Brave Survivor and Fables for a Modern World” appeared in New York Times Book Review.
- “Until Toni Morrison Lit the Path” appeared in The Forward, August 2019.
- “On the Search for Victims Who Are Too Perfect to be Us: Or, what I learned from my friendship with Helga Newmark and her friendship with Anne Frank “ appeared in Slate.
- “Writing the Lives of Forgotten Women” appeared in The Paris Review
- “On Nazis, Family and the Question of Forgiveness: two Novelists Confront the Legacies of Their Families” appeared in Salon
- “In Defense of Imaginary Friends” appeared in Electric Literature
- “A Japanese Stranger Saved My Family From the Holocaust. How Can I Repay Him?” appeared in Quartz
- “The Biggest Mystery of My Book is Its Cover” appeared in LitHub
- “Childhood Heroes: Once Self-Made, Now to the Manner Born” appeared in the New York Times’ Motherlode blog
- “Weighing My Words” appeared in the New York Times’ Draft column
- “What Elie Wiesel Taught Me About Being a Writer” appeared in the Forward
- “Unrequited Love Letters” was the first of a series of fifteen essays and interviews for the Ploughshares blog. For the full series, click on individual titles:
- Unrequited Love Letters
- An Interview with Hala Salah Eldin Hussein
- Literary Friendship Across Political Borders
- Radio Drama and the Written Word
- Writing Fiction, Writing Plays, Writing Voice: an Interview with Carol Gilligan
- The Literary Flash Mob: a Call to Mischief
- Knocking Off Mom (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love G-Rated Murder)
- Picking Up Where They Leave Off: an Interview with Randy Testa
- Compassing the Truth: Language in the Historical Novel
- Learning to Listen: an Interview with Susan Power
- Reading Devoutly, Writing Devoutly
- The Physics of Fiction, the Music of Philosophy: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
- On Generosity of Thought: a Writer’s Gifts
- On Quietness: An Interview with Brian Morton
- On Improvisation: a Farewell (For Now) to Blogging
- “The Man Behind the Scream” first appeared in The Good Men Project Magazine and was reprinted in abridged form in Utne Reader and later in Emerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers, ed. Barclay Barrios
- “The Davka Method” appeared in Who We Are: on Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer, ed. Derek Rubin. The collection was awarded a National Jewish Book Award.
- “Guilt Judo” appeared in The Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt, ed. Ruth Andrew Ellenson. The collection was awarded a National Jewish Book Award
Articles
The Paris Review, “Writing the Lives of Forgotten Women”
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“On Nazis, Family, and the Question of Forgiveness: Two Novelists Confront the Legacies of Their Families”—Jessica Shattuck and Rachel Kadish in Salon
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“In Defense of Imaginary Friends”—Rachel Kadish in Electric Lit
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“The Biggest Mystery of My Book Is Its Cover: Rachel Kadish Tries to Track Down the Meaning of a Lost Fragment”—in LitHub
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