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“Love and Death in the American Novel,” Reviewed

For the critic Leslie Fiedler, the country’s best and worst fiction was shaped by visions of escape from society—and therefore from maturity.

The Return of the Native

Nicholas Lemann’s family history illuminates what it means to be Jewish in America and explains how we choose our religious and ethnic identities. The post The Return of the Native...

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Fernando Pessoa and the Jewish Question

Marco Roth, Tablet Nearly anywhere it was possible for a Jew at the beginning of the 20th century to set foot, Eliezer Kamenezky set foot. From his birthplace in Luhansk, he first...

“The Readers,” by Ben Lerner

It would be one thing if I wrote fiction about Cromwell or aliens, but, given that my protagonists resemble me, how could I know you weren’t mixing us up?

Only a Jewish Woman Could Write a Dystopian Novel Like This

On its surface, there is nothing particularly Jewish about the French novel “I Who Have Never Known Men,” whose English translation has been experiencing an unexpected surge in pop...