The question at the heart of David Bezmozgis’s new novel, The Betrayers, is the legacy that one generation bequeaths to another. The novel, which is set in a single 24-hour period, asks us to consider ...

The betrayals come thick and fast in David Bezmozgis’ aptly titled and beautifully written second novel, The Betrayers. The first involves Baruch Kotler, a 64-year-old Israeli politician who cheated ...

David Bezmozgis and Jonathan Franzen read from their forthcoming novels at the Cedar Lake Theatre, in Chelsea. Bezmozgis, whose début story collection, “Natasha and Other Stories” (2004) included the ...

A decade after its publication, Canadian author David Bezmozgis is turning his debut short story collection, “Natasha and Other Stories,” into a film. As with “Victoria Day,” his first cinematic ...

David Bezmozgis’s slim new novel, “The Betrayers,” seems at first deceptively simple, then, at second glance, deceptively complex. Set against a historical and political background that becomes too ...

Although it's easy to forget with all the fan excitement, David Foster Wallace's The Pale King isn't the only big novel that's just arrived in bookstores. While it may not be the last work of a ...

What does the novelist do in the face of history? Such a question, notes David Bezmozgis in his essay “The Novel in Real Time,” once made Philip Roth worry about contemporary fiction, which he feared ...

David Bezmozgis calls his new novel, "The Free World," a title laden with irony. This rich and absorbing story opens on the platform of Vienna's Western Terminal, where "the representatives of Soviet ...

Way back in January of 2010, the writer David Bezmozgis visited Georgetown University for a public discussion of his fiction and cinema. Our conversation covered an awful lot of ground, ranging from ...

At one time, the Soviet Union housed the largest Jewish population in the world; it was a tense arrangement. While many of the Jewish communities flourished, they also faced discrimination.

NATASHA: And Other Stories. By David Bezmozgis. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 160 pp. $18. THERE is not a sentence or line of dialogue that rings false in this highly accomplished first book of interwoven ...