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Bezalel Stern
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The World Without You, by Joshua Henkin
The World Without You, Joshua Henkin’s new book, is that rare breed: the twenty-first century domestic novel. Henkin’s characters, the Frankels – think Salinger’s Glass family, but more pretentious – spend the plot over a three-day period (it is, importantly,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Damion Searls
To say that Amsterdam Stories is a pleasure to read is a vast understatement. This pearl of a book, containing all of the Dutch author Nescio’s greatest stories, evoked in me a joy I seldom receive: the jolt of clarity…
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Grossman’s Magnum Opus
In his latest novel, To the End of the Land, Israeli novelist David Grossman encapsulates the magical thinking of a country that could easily not exist.
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Moby Dick: Illustrated and Interpreted
Through playful and evocative illustrations, Matt Kish’s Moby Dick in Pictures transforms on one of the greatest American novels and makes it relevant again.
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The Free World
In David Bezmozgis’s first novel, the Krasnansky’s, a family of Soviet émigrés, wait in Italy for permission to move to North America, the Free World referenced in the book’s title.
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He, the People
A legal scholar warns of presidential power-mongering and calls for a national Day of Deliberation.
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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
David Grann compiles a decade of investigative profiles from The New Yorker and elsewhere in a compelling study of the dark side.