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    Writing Jewish

    How Sefton Goldberg saved my life

    byHoward Jacobson
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    (Shutterstock)
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    TV Is for Dummies

    Stop comparing television shows to great novels. They’ll never be as good.

    byLiel Leibovitz
  • Philip Roth at his home in Warren, Ct., Sept. 5, 2005.(Douglas Healey/AP)
    Philip Roth at his home in Warren, Ct., Sept. 5, 2005.(Douglas Healey/AP)
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    Is Roth Really Done?

    After crafting dozens of fictional versions of exits and endings, the writer carefully manages his own

    byDavid Hadar
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    M.H. Abrams, 2009.(Dale R. Corson)
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    The Last Critic

    The great M.H. Abrams, peer of Trilling, teacher of Bloom, and editor of the Norton Anthology, dead at 102

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Philip Roth, 2009.(Beowulf Sheehan/Pen American Center)
    Philip Roth, 2009.(Beowulf Sheehan/Pen American Center)
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    Roth Redux

    Philip Roth’s defenders point to his later, more serious works to argue for his place in the canon. In truth, those books make clearer his weaknesses.

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    When you work at a magazine, you get advance copies.(The author)
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    Your Jewish Fall Fiction Preview

    Ten new novels to know

    byMarc Tracy
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    Deronda in ’04

    When it comes to Daniel Deronda, Henry James got some things right

    byStephen Vider
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