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    The Liar
    Ayelet Gundar-Goshen; Sondra Silverston, trans.
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    The 100 Most Jew­ish Foods: A High­ly Debat­able List
    Alana New­house
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    Invis­i­ble As Air
    Zoe Fish­man
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    In Defense of Elit­ism: Why I’m Bet­ter Than You and You are Bet­ter Than Some­one Who Did­n’t Buy This Book
    Joel Stein
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    The Genius of Women: From Over­looked to Chang­ing The World
    Jan­ice Kaplan
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    Mod­ern Man­hood: Con­ver­sa­tions About the Com­pli­cat­ed World of Being a Good Man Today
    Cleo Stiller
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    The Boys’ Club
    Eri­ca Katz
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    Smacked: A Sto­ry of White-Col­lar Ambi­tion, Addic­tion, and Tragedy
    Eilene Zim­mer­man
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    The Gam­ing Mind: A New Psy­chol­o­gy of Videogames and the Pow­er of Play
    Alexan­der Kriss
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    The Peanuts Papers: Writ­ers and Car­toon­ists on Char­lie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Mean­ing of Life
    Andrew Blauner
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    Can Robots Be Jew­ish?: Inspi­ra­tional Rab­bis Answer Press­ing Ques­tions of Mod­ern Life
    Amy E. Schwartz
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    Grow­ing Weed in the Gar­den: A No-Fuss Seed-to-Stash Guide to Out­door Cannabis Cultivation
    Johan­na Silver
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    Here She Is: The Com­pli­cat­ed Reign of the Beau­ty Pageant in America
    Hilary Lev­ey Friedman
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    Dare To Speak: Defend­ing Free Speech for All
    Suzanne Nos­sel
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    The Last Great Jew­ish Nov­el Was a Movie: A Look Back at the Coen Broth­ers’ ​‘A Seri­ous Man’

    An exam­i­na­tion of the lit­er­ary influ­ences behind the film, a decade after its release.

    Andrew Rid­ker
    March 19, 2019
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    When Paul Met Artie: The Sto­ry of Simon & Garfunkel
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