stories

• “The Argument” was first published in Zoetrope and later appeared in Arabic and Dutch translations and in the anthology Lost Tribe: New Jewish Fiction from the Edge, edited by Paul Zakrzewski
• “Women Dreaming of Jerusalem” appeared in Story and in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and in Arabic translation
• “Come on Zion Put Your Hands Together” appeared in the anthology Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging, edited by Derek Rubin, recipient of the National Jewish Book Award
• “The Governess and the Tree” appeared in Ploughshares
• “Beauty” appeared in Salamander
• “Love Story” appeared in New England Review
• “Meryl” was broadcast on National Public Radio’s Hanukkah Lights program

essays

• “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
• “The Unflinching Empathy I Learn as a Novelist is What the World Needs” appeared as a Guest Essay in The New York Times.