Ani Wilcenski is Deputy Literary Editor at Tablet magazine.
How the rapper of mixed Zulu and Jewish origins embodies all that is real in the uncanny valley of online culture
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Dr. Sheila Nazarian is one of the most famous plastic surgeons in LA, but it took a conflict in Gaza for her to find her voice
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In the hope of the Prague Spring, and in its bitter aftermath, Milan Kundera understood that cultural-police mobsters are the real April fools
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