FEH: A Memoir. By Shalom Auslander. Riverhead Books. 368 pages. $29. A few years ago, the writer Shalom Auslander was hospitalized with a potentially fatal case of pancreatitis after taking a banned ...

Shalom Auslander desperately tried to avoid cutting his own trailer for his first novel, Hope: A Tragedy, which is odd: Not only does he have the comic timing to pull it off — the essayist’s bad-Jew ...

Shalom Auslander has a problem with authority. At least, that’s what he wants you to think. I knew this going in to our meeting and was a bit nervous. He had been promoting his new novel, Hope: A ...

I was cleaning out my attic the other day. There, behind the stack of National Geographic magazines I had inherited from my grandfather, was the writer Shalom Auslander. He was lying backside down on ...

Writer Shalom Auslander discusses his much-anticipated new memoir, “Foreskin’s Lament,” and how he’s cut back on giving God the finger – at least physically. WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (JTA) – Shalom Auslander ...

This brilliant new novel from Shalom Auslander is not for the faint-hearted, although the faint-hearted might benefit from reading it, writes Stuart Kelly Against a backdrop of economic and ecological ...

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There’s a fundamental and perhaps fundamentally irresolvable tension at the heart of Shalom Auslander’s first novel, “Hope: A Tragedy” — the tension between text and context, or between the artist and ...

Jewish saint, martyr, and representative of the 6 million dead, Anne Frank has been consecrated as the stand-in for all the Jewish men, women, and above all, children, murdered by the Nazis in the ...