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    God and America and Philip Roth

    On the late writer’s evolution from secular psychological realist to seeker of the nation’s holy heart

    byPaul Berman
  • Justin Taylor( Brooklyn Based)
    Justin Taylor( Brooklyn Based)
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    On “Jewish” Writing

    Starting a conversation about Jewish fiction

    byMatthew Fishbane
  • American novelist, poet, and critic John Updike, photographed in Boston, Mass., on Oct. 8, 2008.(Antonin Kratochvil/VII/Corbis)
    American novelist, poet, and critic John Updike, photographed in Boston, Mass., on Oct. 8, 2008.(Antonin Kratochvil/VII/Corbis)
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    John Updike the Jew

    In his Bech books, the great novelist of American WASPdom parsed the allure and otherness of Jewish writers

    byAdam Kirsch
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    Counterlife

    Reading books like Franny and Zooey as a child in California made Jews seem an exotic minority. In New York, they seem like any old hegemony.

    byAlice Gregory
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