Nathan Englander

My Book Deal Ruined My Life

Nathan Englander.
Elena Seibert
Nathan Englander.

Taxes, weight gain, depression, loneliness—book advances are like lottery payoffs.  read more »

A Loving Family Caught in a Dirty War

Nathan Englander.
Elena Seibert/Knopf
Nathan Englander.


In one of the most arresting stories in Nathan Englander’s first book, a collection called For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (1999), Charles Morton Luger discovers one afternoon in a taxi cab on Park Avenue that he is the bearer of a Jewish soul.  read more »