Photo © Elena Seibert

• About this Author
• From the Author

author spotlight

Nathan Englander was born in New York in 1970. His short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and numerous anthologies
including The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Anthology, and The Pushcart Prize. Englander's story collection, For the Relief of
Unbearable Urges (Knopf, 1999), earned him a PEN/Malamud Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kauffman Prize. He was a
Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 and a Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library in 2004. He lives in Manhattan.

author bookshelf

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Stories
Written by Nathan Englander
Read by Susan Denaker, Arthur Morey and Paul Michael

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $17.50

Read more >

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Stories
Written by Nathan Englander

Format: eBook, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 13, 2010
Price: $15.00

Read more >

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Stories
Written by Nathan Englander

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 21, 2000
Price: $15.00

The stories in For the Relief of Unbearable Urges are powerfully inventive and often haunting, steeped in the weight of Jewish history and in the customs of Orthodox life. But it is in the largeness of their spirit-- a spirit that finds in doubt a doorway to faith, that sees in... Read more >

The Ministry of Special Cases

Written by Nathan Englander
Read by Arthur Morey

Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $34.95

Read more >

The Ministry of Special Cases

Written by Nathan Englander
Read by Arthur Morey

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $22.50

Read more >

The Ministry of Special Cases

Written by Nathan Englander

Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 18, 2009
Price: $14.95

Read more >

The Ministry of Special Cases

Written by Nathan Englander

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $14.95

From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, Nathan Englander's debut novel The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina's Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who won't accept him; strives for a wife who forever... Read more >

The Ministry of Special Cases

Written by Nathan Englander

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $25.00

The long-awaited novel from Nathan Englander, author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. Englander’s wondrous and much-heralded collection of stories won the 2000 Pen/Malamud Award and was translated into more than a dozen languages.

From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, The... Read more >

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Written by Nathan Englander
Read by Arthur Morey

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $1.99

Read more >

The Gilgul of Park Avenue
A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Written by Nathan Englander
Read by Paul Michael

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $1.99

Read more >

In This Way We Are Wise
A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Written by Nathan Englander
Read by Paul Michael

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $1.99

Read more >

Reb Kringle
A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Written by Nathan Englander
Read by Arthur Morey

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $1.99

Read more >

Reunion
A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Written by Nathan Englander
Read by Paul Michael

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $1.99

Read more >

The Last One Way
A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Written by Nathan Englander
Read by Susan Denaker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $1.99

Read more >

The Tumblers
A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Written by Nathan Englander
Read by Arthur Morey

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $1.99

Read more >

The Wig
A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Written by Nathan Englander
Read by Susan Denaker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $1.99

Read more >

The Twenty-seventh Man
A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Written by Nathan Englander
Read by Paul Michael

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $1.99

Read more >