Jane Lazarre on How This Age of Crisis Affects Our Inner Worlds

Aug 13, 2021 | Interviews

Writer Jane Lazarre is no stranger to the pages of Lilith; an excerpt from her provocative and resonant novel, Inheritance, appeared in the Summer 2009 issue, and her memoirs The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter and The Mother Knot were both the subjects of...

Three Works by Jane Lazarre on Race & Whiteness

Sep 26, 2019 | News

Labor Journal – Review of The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter

Sep 25, 2019 | News

“Jane Lazarre’s memoir about her father is at once an intimate look into a rocky father-daughter relationship and an account of the fascinating life of a leader in the American Communist Party….the personal narratives offer a picture of the Party that cannot be...

Interview with Jane Lazarre

Sep 2, 2018 | Interviews

Deborah Kalb sits down with Lazarre to discuss her latest book Q: Why did you decide to write this memoir about your father, and how long did it take you to complete it? A: I decided to write this memoir about my father over 40 years after his death for many reasons –...

The Forward – Review of The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter

Dec 1, 2017 | Press Releases

“The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter tells the story of a family, of the struggle between old and new homelands, and of a man trying to balance his idealism with a reality that falls short of it.” Jeff Fleischer, The Forward...