Authors / Josh Lambert
Josh Lambert is the Sophia Moses Robison Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English, and Director of the Jewish Studies Program, at Wellesley College.
The State of the Genre
Books of Sarah
In 2021, Jewish fiction grappled, in registers both tragic and comic, with questions of gender, power, and sexual politics.
Josh Lambert May 18, 2022
The State of the Genre
Jews with Money
Last year, a number of American Jewish novels tackled the fraught subject of Jewishness and wealth.
Josh Lambert July 15, 2021
The State of the Genre
Who Speaks in the Jewish Novel?
In 2019, American Jewish fiction took a renewed interest in the question of who gets to write about whom.
Josh Lambert May 25, 2020
Review
A Divorce Story, from “Both Sides”
Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut novel reflects the irrelevance of Jewishness to the most pressing concerns in many American Jews’ lives.
Josh Lambert June 19, 2019
Essay
Roth Versus The Rabbis
“It was presumptuous of you, Rabbi Rackman, to speak of yourself to me as ‘a leader of his people.’ You are not my leader and I can only thank God for it.”
Josh Lambert May 23, 2018
