Reread the lovable, teachable-moment antics of Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie, plus their brother Charlie.

It had to happen—some of our favorite sleuths and spies are aging. This time next year, Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon will have retired from active

Two young New York reporters are out to prove themselves. In one mystery set in the ‘60s, author James W. Ziskin’s Ellie Stone does not to let sexism

The Collini Case: A Novel (Viking Adult, 208 pp. $25.95 cloth, $15 paper) combines murder, love, greed, ambition, politics and Nazis. Written by Ferdinand von Schirach, a

In The Retrospective (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 336 pp. $26), adeptly translated by Stuart Schoffman, Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua shows himself to have serious metaphysical and theological

In her second book, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist (New York Review Books, 207 pp. $16 paper), set in Jerusalem in 1999, Ruchama King Feuerman depicts

John J. Clayton’s work is inextricably tied to humanism, but as his stories, first published in Commentary magazine, make clear, his fiction is unashamedly Jewish.

DVDs Mama Doni’s Jewish Holiday Party Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg give kids not only a whopping good time musically and in storytelling but offer