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Joshua Cohen’s The Netanyahus.

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“He told me, looking over his shoulder though no one was eavesdropping, that he liked Reagan.”

It’s a cop-out to explain away a novel’s improprieties on the grounds that they are of another age.

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A funny and heartbreaking alternate reality.

At ninety-two, the author remains at the height of her powers.

A new biography is a “narrative masterwork.”

The blessing and the curse.

Steve Kogan’s Winter Vigil.

Esther Safran Foer wants you to know she’s still here, and doing great.

Sex, drugs, and Zohar?

A devout Christian finds comfort in these tales of ḥasidic rebels.