Yona Zeldis McDonough
A new mother dives headlong into a parallel world to find her missing son in The Possibilities (Random House, $27), a quasi-sci-fi novel that sets out to examine and explore… Read more »
Q & A with Yael Goldstein Love
Tag: motherhood
A Tale of Midlife Self-Discovery
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Melissa Giberson found out that divorcing a husband of many years and telling her kids that she was gay was the hardest thing she’d ever done and she charts her journey in Late… Read more »
A Comics Artist Takes on Her Family’s War Story
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A comic strip about going into hiding during the Holocaust: Miriam Katin’s We Are On Our Own.
A Mom, Not a Superhero: Debi Lewis On “Kitchen Medicine”
Mikhal Weiner
Parents break sometimes, and we put ourselves back together. But if we never see any stories of other people doing it, it makes us feel like monsters.
Poetry: Sarah Asleep
Gail Newman
The latest midrash with a woman-centered version of the story of “the binding of Isaac.”
What Magic Is Ours?
Emily Barth
You can’t make a voodoo doll, I repeat. It isn’t our magic to use. I think of the magic that should be ours to use, instead. The faith we should have in our mezuzot and our medicine. A magic based on belief in the good.
A Mother’s Lost Life, Before the War
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Julie Metz talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough her new book Eve and Eva: A Search for My Mother’s Lost Childhood and What War Left Behind (Atria).
Totally Normal
Marissa Tiamfook Gee
While my tears flowed and the moment felt surreal, my five-year-old asked me if Elsa from Frozen is real.
My Hair as a Metaphor
Meredith Gordon Resnick
My hair was a problem to be solved. From inside and outside the walls of my house, my hair was a symbol of something larger that had nothing and everything to do with me.