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    Literary Fiction

    Cover of Protecting Paige
    Fic­tion
    Pro­tect­ing Paige
    Deby Eisen­berg
    Cover of Tasa's Song: A Novel
    Fic­tion
    Tasa’s Song: A Novel
    Lin­da Kass
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    Fic­tion
    Shy­lock Is My Name
    Howard Jacob­son
    Interview

    Inter­view: Rebec­ca Dinerstein

    Nat Bern­stein
    November 20, 2015
    Cover of Anna and the Swallow Man
    Fic­tion
    Anna and the Swal­low Man
    Gavriel Sav­it
    Cover of Dora Bruder
    Fic­tion
    Dora Brud­er
    Patrick Modiano; Joanna Kilmartin, trans.
    Cover of Book of Numbers: A Novel
    Fic­tion
    Book of Num­bers: A Novel
    Joshua Cohen
    Cover of A Reunion of Ghosts
    Fic­tion
    A Reunion of Ghosts
    Judith Claire Mitchell
    Cover of After Birth
    Fic­tion
    After Birth
    Elisa Albert
    Cover of Catch-22
    Fic­tion
    Catch-22
    Joseph Heller
    Cover of Dissident Gardens
    Fic­tion
    Dis­si­dent Gardens
    Jonathan Lethem
    Cover of The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
    Fic­tion
    The Col­lect­ed Sto­ries of Ste­fan Zweig
    Stefan Zweig; Anthea Bell, trans.
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    Fic­tion
    All Rus­sians Love Birch Trees
    Olga Grjasnowa; Eva Bacon, trans.
    Cover of A Replacement Life
    Fic­tion
    A Replace­ment Life
    Boris Fish­man
    Cover of A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World: A Novel
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    A High­ly Unlike­ly Sce­nario, or a Neet­sa Piz­za Employ­ee’s Guide to Sav­ing the World: A Novel
    Rachel Can­tor
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    Fic­tion
    The Ghost Writer
    Philip Roth
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