Fiction Spring 2024

Paula grew up in Minsk, was sent to New York when she was young, dreamt of studying medicine and was a committed anarchist. But then she met her future husband, the founder of the state of Israel...

In 1926, full of hope and longing, the ambitious young sculptor Constantin Avis moves to New York. A famous gallery owner wants to take him under his wing and facilitate his great breakthrough in...

Israel is the country where S. has spent countless childhood summers. It is also the country of the people whom S. encounters, now that she has moved here. She meets them as she hitchhikes and ro...

We sometimes worry that we’ve been a coward, hesitated too long – and missed out on something that would have made us a better, happier person, with better-looking and more fun pets and partners....

Iceland, the land of geysers and volcanos, has a rich history and is home to a unique literary tradition. "In the Shadow of the Volcano" takes us on a fascinating voyage of discovery around its l...

Sometimes, the parents would leave the hot factory halls behind and drive off to the sea with the kids. Always to the North Sea, always for just a few days. The rest was drudgery, as they toiled ...

For Katrin and Hans, every parent’s nightmare has come true: they have lost their firstborn son shortly after his birth. And then they lose each other. Katrin is tortured by doubts about the doct...

Ksenia is Russian, German, Jewish, an ex-Jehova’s Witness, a young woman, mother, writer and scholar, ‘this, that and several kinds of intersectional’ – and also none of the above. As Ksenia expl...

In six deeply personal essays, Marica Bodrožić examines the question of how, among the violence and injustice that surround us, we can attain a new kind of openness in our thinking and become mor...

Ellinor has always yearned for success. Career, marriage, a child, she had it all; but even as she was still adapting to her new life, her marriage fell apart. Her neighbour Els’ kitchen has beco...