Two acclaimed novelists explore the tangled bonds of family through distinctly Jewish lenses. Michael Arditti’s The Tribe follows a Sephardic dynasty from Salonica to France, tracing love, conflict and survival across continents and the upheavals of the twentieth century. Benjamin Markovits’s The Rest of Our Lives offers a quieter, contemporary portrait: a midlife journey across America in the wake of marital rupture, suffused with reflection on belonging and the ties that shape us. In conversation with writer Amanda Craig, they discuss Jewish storytelling, the legacies families carry, and the enduring power of fiction to illuminate our most intimate worlds.
