Wednesday’s WIP: Last Article of 2013 Looks Ahead to 2014

At this time of year, I’m confronted with the many books published in 2013 that I haven’t yet managed to read. It seems that every day another “best-of” list materializes to remind me of the recurrent truth: There’s just never enough time to get to all of the books that I’d like to read, not even if I limited myself to books of Jewish interest, or to novels and short-story collections. And yet, as we approach the new year, publishers’ 2014 catalogs promise a new array of tempting titles. Here are just five of the notable “Jewish books” that I’m already anticipating.

Read the rest of my last article to be published in 2013–“5 Jewish Books to Read in 2014”–over on The Forward‘s Arty Semite blog.
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