Whenever I get overwhelmed by headlines and posts about the Jeffrey Epstein case, especially if they involve ideas about secret conspiracies, mind control, or nefarious pizza parlors, I check in to…

“The Darkest Light” revisits the other side of the charismatic rabbi.

The ground was hard and my progress was slow. The metal edge of my shovel only chipped away at the cold clay. I worked harder, and my breathing grew heavy. A wedge shaped piece came loose and I set…

For Black History Month, observed annually during the month of February, we asked our members—independent presses, literary journals, and others—to share with us some of the books and magazines they r...

Calling all fiction writers!

As we anxiously await news of a ceasefire and hostage return deal, Torn, a documentary directed by Nim Shapira, brings us back to the earliest days after October 7, depicting the hostage poster war…

A Novel

There’s only a subtle resentment running through the maternal line.

In Beth Kander’s “I Made It Out of Clay,” what’s a girl to do but make a golem out of the clay left behind in the very creepy basement of her apartment building?