The title of Nicole Krauss’s short story collection says it all, really: what is it to be a man in this world? For Krauss, and for anyone else who isn’t a man, it can only be left to the imagination and she’s done so deftly in this collection. ![]() In fact, the first sentence of the first story is, “What is your gender?” My gender as a woman means I’ve been subordinated without me having a say.īelow are books by Jewish authors, like me, who grapple with the crossroads of identity and gender: To Be a Man by Nicole Krauss ![]() Though I did not set out to do so, I write about abuse of women frequently. My short story collection As If She Had a Sayuses absurdism to examine the societal roles we’re forced into based on our identities. Naturally, there is overlap with Jewish and queer identities and women’s identities and other identities that often find themselves scribbled in the marginalia and not as protagonists. What is a Jewish book? What is a queer book? What is a woman’s book? Does the protagonist have to be searching for or struggling with their identity? Is there some uber-Jewishness that comes out in a narrative or a tell that signifies that something is a queer book? It’s like the what’s something that’s not Jewish but feels Jewish TikToks.
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