The 50-cent specimen staring back at us from our word-of-the-day calendar this fine morning is “bildungsroman.” It is the literary term for a coming-of-age story — more specifically one where mental ...

Janice Weizman was born in Toronto, and moved to Israel at the age of nineteen. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at Bar-Ilan University, where she initiated and serves as managing ...

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A young man leaves his home and sets out on a journey. He is impressionable, sensitive, and inexperienced in the ways of the world. Because he is young, everything is new, surprising, a revelation. He ...

I’ve been spending my holiday teaching break trying to finish a manuscript for a young adult coming-of-age novel I’m working on, which has me thinking a lot about coming-of-age novels, which has me ...

Somewhere in the collective Indian sensibility lives the image of our parents caressing each other while we the children feign sleep. Did it really happen, or was it a book or a film? That is where ...