Nathan Englander is the author of the story collections What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank and For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, as well as the novel The Ministry of Special Cases. In 2012, along with the publication of What We Talk About, Englander's play The Twenty-Seventh Man will premiere at The Public Theater, and his translation New American Haggadah (edited by Jonathan Safran Foer) will be published by Little Brown. He also co-translated Etgar Keret's Suddenly A Knock at the Door forthcoming in March from FSG. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and Madison, Wisconsin. » Full Bio

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

"Certifiable masterpieces of contemporary short-story art."

--Michael Chabon

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The Ministry of Special Cases

"A mesmerizing rumination on loss and memory, spun out with a fabulism that recalls Isaac Bashevis Singer… Masterly."
– Los Angeles Times

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

"Taut, edgy, sharply observed….A revelation of the human condition."
– The New York Times Book Review