Authors / Jess Bergman

In his Novi Sad trilogy of post-Holocaust fictions, the Serbian novelist Aleksandar Tišma examines the psychologically warping effects of antisemitism.

In Natalia Ginzburg’s fiction—including three recently reissued works—painful things cannot be put off forever.

Susan Taubes’s Divorcing traces the separation of a wife from her husband, a family from their homeland, and a people from their God.

Anna Wiener’s memoir of her time in San Francisco tech subtly skewers the industry, but its elegantly disaffected style has its limits.

Anna Burns’s Milkman bears witness to the private pain subsumed in political violence.

In her new book, Kristen Ghodsee explores how capitalism harms women, including in their intimate lives.