If rapacious capitalism depends on fracking our attention and selling it back to us, practices of radical attention can help us to imagine alternative forms of social relations and selfhood, forms which moneyed interests claim are either naive or undesirable.
Bruno’s Conversion – Tsipi Keller
At the heart of Jewish American fiction since 1945 are questions of assimilation, identity, faith, and the Holocaust. A handful of contemporary writers continue to engage these themes with renewed ambivalence, both advancing and complicating inherited literary style.