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Life Beyond Portnoy By Alan Stone Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books Claudia Roth Pierpont Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013,

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How Philistine Became a Dirty Word by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil t’s a story nearly everyone knows: The young shepherd boy uses

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With the Winter Olympics set to open in Sochi, Russia, in February, Moment’s Josh Tapper talks to David Wallechinsky, author of The Complete Book of the Olympics and president of the International Society of Olympic Historians. ...

By Richard Michelson What shall I ask of this sixteen-year-old girl, born in the final years of the twentieth century, who

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For the first four decades after the Holocaust, most memoirs and historical studies viewed life in the camps through male

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By Konstanty Gebert. Over the past few years, a series of books has brought to the attention of English-speaking readers the morally challenging, historically important and often overlooked or forgotten story of the Polish contribution to the Allied war effort in World War II, and of the terrible fate of ...

Joyce Carol Oates in Conversation with Alan Cheuse   On November 14, Moment fiction editor Alan Cheuse spoke with fellow

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By Josh Tapper Bukharian Friday night dinner is an elaborate affair: Plates of carp doused with garlic sauce and cilantro,

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