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NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Global Fiction
February 24, 2026
Dog
Yishai Ishi Ron
Told through the eyes of an Israeli combat officer who’s haunted by the trauma of fighting in Gaza, Dog (Soncata Press 2025) is a gritty story about PTSD, the effects of war, and resilience.
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February 17, 2026
Swiss Vendetta
Tracee de Hahn
Agnes Luthi is a police officer in Lausanne, Switzerland who transfers from financial to violent crimes just in time to investigate the death of a young art appraiser in a magnificent mountain chateau.
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White: A Novel
Aviva Rubin
Sarah Cartell, who grew up in a White Supremacist family controlled by a violent grandfather who preaches hate and violence, learns from books and a kind librarian that there’s another way to see the world.
November 19, 2025
If the Owl Calls
Sharon White
As the Sami community (Norway) struggles to protect ancestral lands from the building of a damn in 1979, Oslo detective Hans Sorensen arrives in the north of the country to investigate sabotage on a damn.
November 11, 2025
Happy New Years
Maya Arad
After finishing her teaching degree in Israel, Leah emigrates to the U.S. for a teaching position that she thinks of as temporary. She ends up staying for 5 decades.
November 4, 2025
Simone in Pieces
Janet Burroway
Simone Lerrante is a Belgian orphan whose memory is damaged by the trauma of her father being shot by Nazis and her subsequent escape to England.
September 30, 2025
Isabella's Way
Barbara Stark Nemon
In early-seventeenth-century Portugal, Spain, France, and Germany, dangers are plentiful—especially for those of Jewish heritage. Non-Catholics have been expelled from Spain, and the Inquisition has come to Portugal to impose its prohibitions.
September 9, 2025
Mona's Eyes
Thomas Schlesser
Mona’s Eyes (Europa Editions, 2025) is an enchanting debut novel written by art historian Thomas Schlesser. It tells the story of a 10-year-old girl living in Paris who briefly loses her vision.
August 26, 2025
Go On Pretending
Alina Adams
Rose Janowitz is surprised to get a production job with a radio soap opera and stunned to fall in love with the show’s African American leading man.
August 12, 2025
The Dime Museum
Joyce Hinnefeld
The Dime Museum is a novel told in stories that span from the 1920s, when Dime Museums were a way for people to gawk at human differences, through 2020, during the ravages of the Coronavirus Pandemic.
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June 24, 2025
The Palace at the End of the Sea
Simon Tolkien
Theo Sterling is eleven when his grandfather kidnaps him, just for the afternoon. He learns that his father had shed his Jewish identity, married a very Catholic woman from Mexico, and stopped talking to either of his parents.
March 11, 2025
The Immortal Woman
Su Chang
Lemai never forgets the humiliation of her teachers and the burning of books during the Cultural Revolution.
February 25, 2025
Fine, I'm a Terrible Person
Lisa F. Rosenberg
The pain of 73-year-old Aurora’s divorce over thirty years before continues to reverberate – she’s eccentric, filled with schemes, and only able to function with help from her daughter.
February 4, 2025
Isola
Allegra Goodman
Based on the true story of a 16th century heiress who is left to die on a deserted island off the coast of what was then called New France (now Canada).
January 14, 2025
The Anatomy of Exile
Zeeva Bukai
The Anatomy of Exile by Zeeva Bukai (Delphinium Books 2025) opens in the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day War, when Tamar Abadi’s sister-in-law is killed by what looks like a terrorist attack but turns out to be the tragic end of Hadas’s love affair with a Palestinian poet.
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