Across generations, humor has been a place for American Jews to explore the relationship between Jewish identity, practices, and history.In this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more expansive view of what it means to "do Jewish," revealing that American Jews have turned, and continue to turn, to humor as a cultural touchstone. Caplan frames the book ar...

Jewish Women Science Fiction Writers Create Future Females: Gender, Temporality—and Yentas, the fourth volume in Marleen S. Barr’s Future Females critical feminist science fiction anthology series, is the first essay collection devoted to Jewish women science fiction writers. The anthology forges new alliances across disciplinary boundaries—feminist theory, science fiction, and Jewish Studies—by forming a scholarly force, consisting of established critical voices and cutting-edge,...

À 17 ans, Veronica a un avenir prometteur. Élève populaire et brillante, elle vient d'être admise dans une prestigieuse université et sa vie semble toute tracée. Pourtant, le jour où elle découvre qu'elle est enceinte, son monde s'écroule et toutes ses certitudes s'envolent. Elle n'est pas prête.Parfois, dans la vie, il y a des tests qu'on préfèrerait rater...Sa seule solution : se rendre dans une clinique à 1 627 kilomètres de chez elle.Désespérée, elle se tourne ve...

The Winter 2020-21 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Winter 2020-21 Issue, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and Poetry Editor John Skoyles, features poetry an...

Ela nunca quis ter um teste negativo… até agoraVeronica tem 17 anos e é uma aluna excelente com um futuro promissor… até ter nas suas mãos um teste de gravidez com duas linhas cor‑de‑rosa. Com todos os seus planos a desmoronarem, equaciona algo impensável: fazer um aborto. Mas há um problema: a clínica mais próxima fica a 1500 quilómetros e Veronica não tem carro. Desesperada, recorre à única pessoa que sabe que não a vai julgar: Bailey Butler, a rebelde da escola e a sua ex‑melhor...

In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation. Caplan's new lead essay explains the shortfalls of present policies. From there, book sections take an interdisciplinary approach to fundamental issues like the determination of death and the dead donor rule; the divis...

An immersive, page-turning novel about surviving as a funny woman in the male-dominated world of comedy—and what happens when the most promising female star of her generation disappears.“An utterly addictive read.”—Amy Tintera, New York Times bestselling author of Listen for the LieIn the 1980s, women were not supposed to be funny. But when a group of college improv comedians gets the chance to join a new late-night show, ...

A collection that proves Jewish humor knows no geographic bounds.Searching for some well-traveled humor? Look no further than this innovative collection, which investigates Jewish humor in television, film, comedy performance, and literature spanning Canada, the US, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. This wide-ranging compilation of Jewish "humors"—from the fallout of a Holocaust joke told in Japan, to Mel Brooks's invocation of longstanding Jewish sa...