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    What to Read This Summer

    Tablet staffers share their favorite fiction and non-fiction reads

    bySophie Aroesty
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    Dispatch: German Book Covers

    Unexpected finds at a former Jewish orphanage in Berlin

    byAdam Chandler
  • 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
  • Pharmacist Victor Capesius, at far left, and Ella Boehm next to him, at a swimming pool in Sighisoara, Romania, 1928.(Private collection; property of Gisela Böhm)
    Pharmacist Victor Capesius, at far left, and Ella Boehm next to him, at a swimming pool in Sighisoara, Romania, 1928.(Private collection; property of Gisela Böhm)
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    Ordinary People

    Two new books, The Druggist of Auschwitz and Reluctant Accomplice, offer true stories of average citizens’ divergent responses to Nazi rule. They help us examine our own rationalization of genocide.

    byAdam Kirsch
  • (US National Archives)
    (US National Archives)
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    Life During Wartime

    In Nemesis, Philip Roth conjures Jewish Newark amid a 1944 polio outbreak

    byAdam Kirsch
  • (Tablet Magazine)
    (Tablet Magazine)
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    Crash Course

    After a lifetime of avoiding Philip Roth’s books, a reader decides to see what all the fuss is about

    byEryn Loeb
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