On October 9th, 2014, when the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to the French writer Patrick Modiano, it seemed to his loving readers as if their long quest on his behalf had finally been fulfilled. Not that this shy and modest man ever considered fame or awards, but that ...
“Listen,” says Tomás to his daughter, Daniela. “I know what you wrote.” Tomás is an academic, a Czech, who got out of Prague before the fall of communism, along with his wife, Katka, and baby Daniela. Now, he’s teaching at a two-bit college in Maine, divorced from Katka when their ...
Sometime in my mid-teens, I asked to join the CYO basketball team at the parish church in my New Jersey hometown. For the uninitiated, CYO stands for Catholic Youth Organization, and it was the group to which my two best friends belonged. Jimmy Lyons lived across the street from me, ...

Reza Aslan is an Iranian American scholar of religions, whose internationally acclaimed books include No god But God and Beyond

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Michael Duffy reviews "The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company," by Jay Neugeboren ...

Naomi Schaefer Riley, a former Wall Street Journal editor and writer, is the author most recently of ‘Til Faith Do

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Norman Gelb is the author of many works of history, including The Berlin Wall, Less Than Glory, Desperate Venture, and

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Glenn Frankel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent many years as a Washington Post reporter and editor, now serves as

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Genesis Secularized I’m delighted that Jon Levenson has good things to say about my book, The Book of Genesis: A

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Stefan Kanfer reviews jews and words by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger. ...

The Greatest Story Ever Retold The Lawgiver Herman Wouk Simon & Schuster 2012, $25.99, pp. 232 The Lawgiver, a new

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Pillars of Sand The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland Shlomo Sand Verso Books 2012,

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