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    ‘Lamed Vav.’ Google It.

    Finally, a potboiler religious action-thriller novel built around an ancient Jewish mystery, in Steven Pressfield’s ‘36 Righteous Men’

    byAdam Kirsch
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    The Brilliance of Batya Gur, Israel’s Greatest Detective Author

    The late writer’s best work reflects the larger anxieties of a society trying to shield its founding ideals against threats from hostile populations

    bySean Cooper
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    Loopy Butt-Surgeon and Disgraced Ex-Journalist Meet in ‘The Chateau’

    Bookworm: Paul Goldberg’s detective novel is hot on the trail of… the detective novel

    byAlexander Aciman
  • Elliott Gould and Nina Van Pallandt in 'The Long Goodbye,' 1973.
    Elliott Gould and Nina Van Pallandt in 'The Long Goodbye,' 1973.
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    A Wannabe-Hardboiled-Jew Reads Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Long Goodbye’

    Bookworm: Was the tough guy America’s greatest act?

    byAlexander Aciman
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original images Shutterstock and Joe Philipson/Flickr)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original images Shutterstock and Joe Philipson/Flickr)
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    Bond. Jew Bond.

    Jerome Charyn’s crowd-pleasing new mystery novel exiles his larger-than-life hero Isaac Sidel to Texas

    byKinky Friedman
  • Walter Mosley.(Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images)
    Walter Mosley.(Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images)
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    Easy Call

    A case for Walter Mosley’s inclusion in the American Jewish literary canon

    byHarold Heft
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    In Her Own Backyard

    Sara Paretsky on her latest leap from crime fiction and what her famous heroine has in common with I.B. Singer

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