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    Autobiography & Memoir

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    The Escape Artist
    Helen Fre­mont
    Essay

    Clos­ing Words

    Jen­nifer Rosner
    June 22, 2020
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    Every­body (Else) Is Per­fect: How I Sur­vived Hypocrisy, Beau­ty, Clicks, and Likes
    Gabrielle Korn
    Excerpt

    Search­ing for Home: The Impact of WWII on a Hid­den Child

    Joe Gosler
    May 27, 2020
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    I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holo­caust Memoir
    Esther Safran Foer
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    Non­fic­tion
    Nice Try: Sto­ries of Best Inten­tions and Mixed Results
    Josh Gondelman
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    Non­fic­tion
    Lit­tle Weirds
    Jen­ny Slate
    Excerpt

    Excerpt — Bar­ry Son­nen­feld, Call Your Moth­er: Mem­oirs of a Neu­rot­ic Filmmaker

    Bar­ry Sonnenfeld
    March 10, 2020
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Return of Car­va­jal: A Mystery
    Ilan Sta­vans
    Cover of Mixed Messages: Reflections on an Italian Jewish Family and Exile
    Non­fic­tion
    Mixed Mes­sages: Reflec­tions on an Ital­ian Jew­ish Fam­i­ly and Exile
    Eleanor Foa
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    A Book­shop in Berlin: The Redis­cov­ered Mem­oir of One Woman’s Har­row­ing Escape from the Nazis
    Françoise Frenkel (auth.), Stephanie Smee (trans.), Patrick Modiano (fwd.)
    Essay

    From Psalms to Milosz: My Jour­ney through Poetry

    Yonatan Berg
    February 10, 2020
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    Loy­al to the Sky: Notes from an Activist
    Marisa Han­dler
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    The Col­or of Love: A Sto­ry of a Mixed Race Jew­ish Girl
    Mar­ra B. Gad
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    My Sur­vival: A Girl on Schindler’s List
    Rina Finder, with Joshua M. Greene
    From the Journal

    ‘The Secret Was Me’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Dani Shapiro and T Kira Madden

    Bec­ca Kantor
    January 28, 2020
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