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  • 'El,' Second and Third Avenue lines, Bowery taken from Division Street, Manhattan, 1936
    'El,' Second and Third Avenue lines, Bowery taken from Division Street, Manhattan, 1936
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    Second Avenue Elevated

    Looking for tracks to my father’s unobtainable past, in old Jewish New York

    byJonathan Liebson
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    Arthur Koestler’s Stunning Portrait of the Criminal Inside Us All

    Bookworm: 35 years after the author’s death this month, his timeless classic ‘Darkness at Noon’ still reverberates from inside its tiny prison cell

    byAlexander Aciman
  • (Margarita Korol)
    (Margarita Korol)
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    Lou Reed’s Rabbi

    The rock star’s new tribute to his teacher, the writer Delmore Schwartz, illuminates their common genius

    byJake Marmer
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    Mothers’ Little Helpers

    Guidebooks quell the anxieties of raising up a child

    byLynn Harris
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    Guess Who’s Coming to Seder

    A Passover in Berlin stirs up questions of freedom and faith

    byJude Stewart
  • (Stephanie Wellen Levine)
    (Stephanie Wellen Levine)
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    In Another Voice

    If most American girls lose their confidence as they mature, what happens in a religious community that segregates the sexes?

    bySara Ivry
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