One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants--some of whom have barely spoken to each other--become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editor Margaret Atwood, Authors Guild president Douglas...

"Nothing seems to change much after Prince Rudolph of the Austro-Hungarian Empire meets his long-lost brother, Eizik, who is now a budding talmid chacham living in Yerushalayim. But as doubts continue to gnaw in Rudolph's heart, the heir to the throne finds himself drawn powerfully to the beautiful life of a Jew. The Church notes this, however...and they are not happy. In the meantime, the Jews of Austria are facing their own impending disaster. Will...