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    It’s the First Week of June. Do You Know Where Your Fam­i­ly His­to­ry Is?

    Boris Fish­man immi­grat­ed from the USSR at nine. He stud­ied Russ­ian lit­er­a­ture at Prince­ton, was on staff at The New York­er, co-wrote the US Senate’s Hur­ri­cane…
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    June 2, 2014
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    Last week, Steven Press­man wrote about a recent vis­it to Vien­na and bring­ing an extra­or­di­nary act of qui­et hero­ism to light. He is the author of the recent­ly…
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    May 26, 2014
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    Vien­na: A Stroll Through a Haunt­ed City

    Ear­li­er this week, Steven Press­man wrote about bring­ing an extra­or­di­nary act of qui­et hero­ism to light. He is the author of the recent­ly pub­lished book 50 Chil­dren:…
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    May 21, 2014
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    This week, Lau­ren Grod­stein, the author of The Expla­na­tion for Every­thing, A Friend of the Fam­i­ly, and Repro­duc­tion is the Flaw of Love and the sto­ry col­lec­tion…
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    Ear­li­er this week, Liel Lei­bovitz wrote about how Leonard Cohen became his per­son­al sav­ior. His newest book, A Bro­ken Hal­lelu­jah: Rock and Roll, Redemp­tion and the Life…
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    May 20, 2014
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    May 19, 2014
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