Novelists from George Eliot to Mary Gordon ask readers to confront our lives as ethical dramas that run only once, and with great consequence.

Ilana Blumberg
Ilana Blumberg is professor of English at Bar Ilan University, Israel, and author of Open Your Hand: Teaching as a Jew, Teaching as an American (Rutgers University Press, 2018) and the Sami Rohr Choice Award Winner Houses of Study: a Jewish Woman among Books (University of Nebraska Press, 2007). She is currently at work on a spiritual life of George Eliot.