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This marvelously engaging and pleasurable novel is like a cross between watching a sly Eric Rohmer film about the spiritual crisis of vacation and reading a Jean Rhys interior monologue of a woman in extremis. For all its horrific aspects, it has a steady undercurrent of humor: the comedy derives from showing the precise mechanisms of low self-esteem, rationalization and self-indulgence. A wickedly readable, psychologically astute and drolly k...

Retelling·a novel by Tsipi Keller· It is the end of the millennium. A relaxed and anticipated summer on Manhattan's East Side turns into a nightmare for the impressionable and vulnerable Sally. In this tightly woven novel, she is suspected of having murdered her closest friend, Elsbeth, with whom she has had a mysterious and absorbing relationship. Traumatized by the detectives, and by her own confused recollections, Sally experiences "subtle ...

Annette, soon to turn thirty, has been transplanted from New York City to a small college town where her husband has been hired to teach rich girls "the basic tenets of History and Culture." The girls have arrived from all over the country with their horses, and Annette wonders how the seemingly spoiled girls manage their busy daily schedules, but they do, they seem to thrive in the fresh air of intellectual and physical pursuits, while Annett...

The setting for Tsipi Keller's new novel, Nadja on Nadja, is New York City-its neighborhoods, its streets, its people-where "humanity, as if spellbound, is approaching the end of the millennium." Working for a living, Nadja, a girl-woman in her thirties, doesn't delude herself. Corporations, she knows, are dictatorships comprised of many low-level tyrants, she must either subjugate herself, or suffer the consequences. In the words of author Br...

Tsipi Keller was born in Prague, raised in Israel, and has been living in the United States since 1974. Her short fiction and her poetry translations have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and her novels include Jackpot and Retelling. Keller has also translated several poetry collections, including Dan Pagis's Last Poems, Irit Katzir's And I Wrote Poems, and her own edited collection, Poets on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary He...