The new cover of In the Blink of an Eye. Translation to English: Galia Vurgan In the circles I run, Yoav Blum needs no introduction. My friends have read all five of his novels. Getting the new Yoav Blum is a no-brainer. He writes a certain brand of sci-fi thriller-mysteries that are grounded in a Tel-Avivian reality that is familiar—almost cosy—to anyone who has lived in urban, secular Israel. His books usually explore a philosophical question through action-packed plots an

Shuck cover. The opening scene of Shuck , a modern gothic horror tale perfect for the Spooky Season, finds Gordon, a retired miner, discovering a tear in the jumper that his wife, Jean, knitted for him before she died in a hit-and-run. Flailing, Gordon runs back, performing clumsy surgery on the jumper in an attempt to preserve Jean’s presence in his life, hanging on to the threads of yarn as if they can keep him from drowning in his grief. As if the jumper can maintain a co

Image from Wix Media September is a convergence of several things for me. I’ve always loved the new school year: there’s nothing like a...

Image from Wix Media Israel was established as a “melting pot”. After the 1948 war, Jews from all over the world arrived in the newly...

Image by Shai Pal on Unsplash When I had the initial idea for Until the Walls Come Down , about a Jewish Israeli woman who discovers...

Cover Design: Matthew Fielder My family story wasn’t something I discovered when I started writing Until the Walls Come Down.  I first...

Red and white dust in the Grand Canyon. Photo: Guy Podjarny When we visited the Grand Canyon, we hiked a little below the rim (a little...

Cross section of a sequoia healing process. Each tiny ring represents a year The trail through Mariposa Grove is no El Capitan. Still, we...

The Grand Canyon, a little below the rim. Photo by Guy Podjarny The Vastness of the Landscape One of the strongest experiences I had...

Spring art at the Bellagio. Photo by Guy Podjarny What surprised me the most about Las Vegas was the abundance of art. I had all kinds of...

American Badlands. Photo credit: Guy Podjarny Driving through the Badlands of the West US, the teenagers listening to music on their...

Photo by Kai Oberhäuser on Unsplash It’s almost a cliché, the starving, struggling artist whose ideas are so outside the mainstream that...