Category: Literature

Room’s Work Wins the Sigourney Award – 2025
By Categories: Arts, General, Literature, Politics, Psychoanalysis

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Click Here to Read: The current issue of Room, 10.25.
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And join Room’s Roundtable.   Join ROOM 10.25 contributors as they explore their layered personal and professional realities and how they are responding to our current world.
Saturday, November 22, 2025
12 PM EDT
Live via Zoom
Read the featured contributors’ work here:
Dana Amir – “Looking into the Face of the Gorgon”
Patrick Cole – “We’ve Had a Problem”
Eiman Hussein – “The Unseen Scars: Navigating the Psychological Landscape of Sudan’s World”

The Heron’s Vigil: Faith, Literature, and the Formation of the Witnessing Self: Faith observant in the literary setting of “Rebecca”
By Categories: Books, Literature

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Faith observant in the literary setting of “Rebecca” by Robert Goodman on the Spoken Word Poetry Substack on October 4, 2025.

Great Blue Heron Image: Dori  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera
By Categories: Arts, History, Literature

Click Here to Read: At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera. To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews By Andrew Silow-Carroll on the Jewish Telegraph website on September 17, 2025.