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Joan Baum Joan Baum is a professor of English at The City University of New York and writes regularly on scholarly and popular topics for various publications. Reviews Fiction The Making of Henry Howard Jacobson Fiction Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue: A Novel of Pastry, Guilt, and Music Mark Kurlansky Fiction The Plot Against America Philip Roth Fiction The History of Love Nicole Krauss Fiction Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer