by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Talking to author Sally Schloss about her one-of-a-kind debut.
Talking to author Sally Schloss about her one-of-a-kind debut.
Trying to take on the incredibly narrow definition of “the right kind of woman.”
What is the value of a work of art when weighed against the value of a human life?
Nuances and potential landmines arise with such a radically new way to bring children into the world.
Inspired by an heiress living in Paris when Hitler invaded, who might have gone home like most Americans did, but instead stayed and risked her life to help strangers.
The new novel, “The Hidden Child”, set in Britain in the years between the two world wars, exposes—and challenges— pernicious ideas about epilepsy and sheds a more benevolent light on the disorder.
I love showing a roadmap to forgiveness in the book. In a story that shares more than enough examples of how life can be horribly unfair and sad, I want kids to see examples of how things can go well or be done helpfully. How things can go right.
In the early 1940s, twenty-five young female inmates of Auschwitz—mostly Jewish—were chosen to design, cut and sew beautiful clothes in a dedicated salon for elite Nazi women. Their skills kept them alive.
Author Jodi Rosenfeld chats with Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about her debut novel, Closer to Fine.
Religious freedom, women’s rights and gender equality can’t happen in a vacuum—they need each other to progress.