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Schocken Review by Walter Cummins The hardest I’ve ever laughed took place more than fifty years ago. David Margolick’s book brought it all back in full hysterics, the experience of…

A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom by Greta Lynn Uehling

I Could Be Famous: Stories by Sydney Rende

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