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    Cover of And the Bride Closed the Door
    Fic­tion
    And the Bride Closed the Door
    Ronit Matalon; Jessica Cohen, trans.
    Essay

    Part II: Take a Skele­ton Out of the Clos­et and Dance with it

    Talia Carn­er
    September 2, 2019
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    Fic­tion
    Feast Your Eyes 
    Myla Gold­berg
    Cover of The Lives of Isaac Stern
    Non­fic­tion
    The Lives of Isaac Stern
    David Schoen­baum
    Cover of The New York Times: Right at Home: How to Buy Decorate Organize and Maintain Your Space
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    The New York Times: Right at Home: How to Buy Dec­o­rate Orga­nize and Main­tain Your Space
    Ron­da Kaysen
    Michelle Hig­gins
    Cover of Attenton: A Love Story
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    Atten­ton: A Love Story
    Casey Schwartz
    Cover of Seeking Sanctuary: 125 Years of Synagogues on Long Island
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    Seek­ing Sanc­tu­ary: 125 Years of Syn­a­gogues on Long Island
    Brad Kolod­ny
    Cover of Modern Manhood: Conversations About the Complicated World of Being a Good Man Today
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    Mod­ern Man­hood: Con­ver­sa­tions About the Com­pli­cat­ed World of Being a Good Man Today
    Cleo Stiller
    Cover of Unpractical Thinking
    Poet­ry
    Unprac­ti­cal Thinking
    Arne Wein­gart
    Cover of The Gaming Mind: A New Psychology of Videogames and the Power of Play
    Non­fic­tion
    The Gam­ing Mind: A New Psy­chol­o­gy of Videogames and the Pow­er of Play
    Alexan­der Kriss
    Cover of Hebrew Roots, Jewish Routes: A Tribal Language In A Global World
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    Hebrew Roots, Jew­ish Routes: A Trib­al Lan­guage In A Glob­al World
    Jere­my Benstein
    Cover of Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier
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    Laugh Lines: My Life Help­ing Fun­ny Peo­ple Be Funnier
    Alan Zweibel
    Cover of A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literary History
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    A Hun­dred Acres of Amer­i­ca: The Geog­ra­phy of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary History
    Michael Hober­man
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    Poet­ry
    For­est with Castanets
    Diane Mehta
    Essay

    ‘Irrev­er­ence and Vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty’: Nora Ephron’s Beginnings

    Renée Rosen
    August 26, 2019
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    Excerpt: The Book of Sarah

    Sarah Light­man
    August 19, 2019
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