Posts tagged "books"
Exclusive: Hear Gary Shteyngart Read Etgar Keret's New Book

Exclusive: Hear Gary Shteyngart Read Etgar Keret’s New Book

Listen to an exclusive track from Etgar Keret's forthcoming Suddenly A Knock on the Door audiobook read by Gary Shteyngart.
Translating God and Others: An Interview with Nathan Englander

Translating God and Others: An Interview with Nathan Englander

Author Nathan Englander talks to Heeb about his irreligiosity, the difference between Etgar Keret and God and how you don't have to be a Jedi to watch Star Wars.
Etgar Keret: Israel's Nonchalant Magical Realist

Etgar Keret: Israel’s Nonchalant Magical Realist

The Israeli author opens up about reading translations of his work, moving into film and why his mother shouldn't kick his son.
Best of 5771: Books

Best of 5771: Books

If you're looking for a list of the best books from 5771, look no further. Snap on a monocle and put a pinky in the air as the well-read Rafi Samuels-Schwartz takes you through the best reads from last year.
Philip Roth Wins Man Booker Despite Sitting on Our Faces

Philip Roth Wins Man Booker Despite Sitting on Our Faces

“It’s as though he’s sitting on your face and you can’t breathe...I don’t rate him as a writer at all,” says the disgruntled Man Booker juror who dissented on Philip Roth's win.

Chabon and Waldman Pit Magicians Against Hitler

Author Michael Chabon and his wife are working on a new series that deals with magicians trying to take down Hitler.
Sins of the Father: Heeb Interviews Dave Itzkoff

Sins of the Father: Heeb Interviews Dave Itzkoff

When New York Times writer Dave Itzkoff was 8, two things happened: He successfully lobbied to never go to Hebrew School again and he learned his father was a cocaine addict. Heeb sat down with Dave to talk about his new book, Alf and his father's circumcision.
Chosen Books: An Interview with Gal Beckerman

Chosen Books: An Interview with Gal Beckerman

The author of When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry stops by to chat about his book, the USSR and the Jewish political establishment.
Heeb Exclusive: Al Jaffee's Mad Life

Heeb Exclusive: Al Jaffee’s Mad Life

Read the prologue to the new biography of cartoonist Al Jaffee's Mad Life.