Check back all week for our top summer reading picks from the archives!
Monday’s pick: Shakespeare The Spy, a novel about an Israeli spy named Shakespeare by Joshua Sobol. Nothing else like this.
Tuesday’s pick: Half Empty, the last novel American humorist David Rakoff published before his death. We miss this guy.
Wednesday’s pick: Sydney Taylor’s Lower East Side classic immigrant series All-of-a-Kind Family. Cue the nostalgia.
Thursday’s pick: Take an absurdist romp through glitzy Tel Aviv with Orly Castel-Bloom’s Textile.
Friday’s pick: Second Person Singular by Israel’s (now Chicago’s) incomparable Sayed Kashua.
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