Shoshana Olidort

I first encountered Andrew Sean Greer about a decade ago, when I devoured his "Confessions of Max Tivoli" (2004), which tells the tragic story of a boy who is born...

Loneliness, studies show, can be lethal. But while most of us won't die of being alone, many will experience, at some point, the dull, gnawing ache of it. This ache...

In Guillermo Erades' "Back to Moscow," Martin, a visiting Ph.D. student ostensibly in Moscow to research his dissertation topic, "the female characters in Russian literature," is surprised to find that...

Describing the characters that populate David Means' novel "Hystopia," men and women profoundly scarred by repressed traumas they can neither recall nor escape, the narrator tells us that they are...

In a 1992 interview with the Paris Review the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai recalled his first encounter with modern poetry during the Second World War, while stationed in the Egyptian...

In a 2014 interview published in the Boston Review, the poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum likened his writing process to starting a fire: "I try to stir up verbal...

The figure of the sad clown is, they say, cliché. But as clichés go, it's a rather potent one that draws on Freudian notions of repression and the human subconscious...

In 2011, Judy Brown came forward as the author of "Hush," originally published under a pseudonym (Eishes Chayil), a harrowing novel based on true facts about sexual abuse and its...