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Since 2010, when Natalie Portman won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in ‘Black Swan,’ the actress has, in fact, been on a tear
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With The Lawgiver, the best-selling novelist takes another stab at the kind of Hollywood fame he’s always coveted
Joshua Henkin’s seductive The World Without You transforms recent headlines into intimate family drama
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In the new collected stories of Nathan Englander, and in his revised Haggadah, Jews cling tenuously to the easily broken chains of tradition
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Erica Jong’s classic novel about passion, sex, and the true self has something to teach contemporary writers who have lost their humanity
From the classic to the newfangled: haggadahs for Seders of every shape, size, and stripe
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