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Reality Bites, for Immigrants With Smartphones

Lara Vapnyar’s ‘timely’ and ‘insightful’ new novel, ‘Still Here,’ wonders what the American dream looks like to former Russians

By Adam Kirsch · August 17, 2016
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Ben Stiller Producing Gary Shteyngart Adaptation

Shteyngart’s 2010 novel Super Sad True Love Story to become TV series

By Gabriela Geselowitz · February 10, 2015
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Jewish Themes and Stories in 2014 Books

Revisiting our coverage of notable books published this year

By Stephanie Butnick and Elissa Goldstein · December 2, 2014
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Alex Karpovsky: Not Just That Guy From ‘Girls’

The actor talks writing, directing, and why he loves listening to books on tape

By Alexander Aciman · October 24, 2014
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Gary Shteyngart Really Just Wants a Bagel

The novelist’s Grub Street Diet is chock full of kasha, whitefish, neuroses

By Stephanie Butnick · October 3, 2014
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Russian Jewish American Lit Goes Boom!

New novels in English by Soviet émigrés navigate the line between immigrant memoir and true fiction

By Sasha Senderovich · June 17, 2014
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Stark Murder Details; SAC Documentary Airing

Plus Gary Shteyngart officially named a Russophobe, and more in the news

By Stephanie Butnick · January 7, 2014
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‘Little Failure’ Is Big Success by Ex-Right-Wing Soviet Jew Who Went to Oberlin, Therapy

Gary Shteyngart’s new memoir is a touching meditation on the origins, nature, and limits of humor

By Sasha Senderovich · January 6, 2014
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Watch Gary Shteyngart’s New Book Trailer

‘Portrait of the artist as a young mensch’

By Adam Chandler · December 13, 2013
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Did U.S. Spy on Israel? Did Mossad Hack France?

Plus an Iranian political prisoner freed by Facebook, and more in the news

By Stephanie Butnick · October 25, 2013
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JewGlass: The Jewish App for Google Glass

Flashes daily Daf Yomi portions and Hebrew translations before your eyes

By Romy Zipken · July 31, 2013
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Sundown: Shteyngart on Shteyngart

Plus a New Jersey Nazi and the furor about the Stephen Hawking furor

By Adam Chandler · June 3, 2013
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Daybreak: Court Hands Win to Women of the Wall

Plus Shteyngart, Tunisian pilgrims, and François Jacob

By Adam Chandler · April 25, 2013
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Congress Passes Sandy Relief

Plus Gabrielle Giffords visits Newtown

By Adam Chandler · January 4, 2013
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Sundown: Israel Works It Ahead of U.N. Vote

Plus a petition protesting Stevie Wonder’s IDF benefit gig, and more

By Adam Chandler · November 28, 2012
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Sundown: A Dispatch from Kerem Shalom

Plus, Romney camp chased by adoring Orthodox wedding party

By Adam Chandler · August 8, 2012
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Sundown: Iran Blast Halts Anti-Israel Project

Plus, Marc Jacobs’ spring collection stolen, Shteyngart’s bookshelf, and more

By Stephanie Butnick · November 16, 2011
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Grossman Makes Obama’s Summer Reading List

A few more suggestions

By Marc Tracy · August 23, 2011
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Yet Another Russian-Immigrant Novel

Today on Tablet

By Marc Tracy · December 30, 2010
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Western Promises

With her debut novel, The Cosmopolitans, Nadia Kalman expands the boundaries of Soviet-Jewish immigrant fiction

By Sara Ivry · December 30, 2010
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Eastern Front

Israeli- and Russian-born immigrants are changing the face of American Jewry

By Liel Leibovitz · December 7, 2010
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Higher Truth

In her new book, critic Ruth Franklin argues for why the Holocaust is best understood through fiction

By Marc Tracy · December 2, 2010
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Jews Who Booze

Match a drink to a novelist

By Marc Tracy · November 3, 2010
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Sundown: Turkey Crowds Out Israel

Plus Russian Jews skipping town, a Russian Jew returns, and more

By Marc Tracy · October 25, 2010
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Today on Tablet

Cohen and Shteyngart team up to drink, and more

By THE EDITORS · July 27, 2010
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End of the World

Novelists Gary Shteyngart and Joshua Cohen discuss their dark visions of the future

By Vox Tablet · July 27, 2010
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Sundown: U.S. Pressuring Abbas on Talks

Plus Oliver Stone on Jewish media dominance, and more

By Marc Tracy · July 26, 2010
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And Thanks For All The Fish

Tomorrow’s Vox Tablet today

By THE EDITORS · July 26, 2010
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On the Bookshelf

Beach reads of all stripes

By Josh Lambert · July 19, 2010
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Sundown: Obama Turns from The Peace Process

Plus the awesome all-female IDF unit, and more

By Marc Tracy · July 16, 2010
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