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Chanan Tigay

Chanan Tigay has contributed to publications including Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the shoe bomber trial for Agence France-Presse. He lives in San Francisco.
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    The Giro D’Italia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and Me

    I have long believed that the very unpopularity of professional cycling in this country is a point in its favor—that my enthusiasm for this sport renders me more worldly, more sophisticated, more European than the average American sports fan. What,…

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    A Day in the Life of the Real Mafia

    Gomorrah is a self-conscious repudiation of gangster movies like Scarface; a reminder that the classy foot soldiers of The Godfather and the bumbling mafiosi of The Sopranos have very little to do with the real world.

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    The Sky Below

    A.J. Liebling once remarked that the authors of newspaper obituaries are “a frustrated and usually anonymous tribe.” That’s certainly true of Gabriel Collins, narrator of Stacey D’Erasmo’s unusual new novel, The Sky Below.