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The Best Minds: A Sto­ry of Friend­ship, Mad­ness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan Rosen
Essay

Hate, Lies, and Scape­goat­ing: Religi­cide Against Jews and Oth­er Minorities

Geor­gette Bennett, Jer­ry White
April 3, 2023
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Fic­tion
The Red Balcony
Jonathan Wil­son
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Fic­tion
The 12th Commandment
Daniel Tor­day
Excerpt

Excerpt: The 12th Commandment

Daniel Tor­day
January 16, 2023
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Fic­tion
The Hye­na Murders
Ellen Frankel
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Fic­tion
One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset
Shimon Adaf; Yardenne Greenspan, trans;
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Fic­tion
Ash­ton Hall
Lau­ren Belfer
Fiction

Land of Milk and Honey

Gina Pfef­fer-Mul­li­gan
July 11, 2022
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The End of Her: Rac­ing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder
Wayne Hoff­man
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Non­fic­tion
The Betray­al of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
Rosemary Sullivan
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The Mur­ders of Moisés Ville: The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America
Javier Sinay, Robert Croll (Translator)
Essay

Inves­ti­gat­ing ​‘The Mur­ders of Moisés Ville’

Javier Sinay
March 28, 2022
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The Imposter’s War: The Press, Pro­pa­gan­da, and the News­man who Bat­tled for the Minds of America
Mark Arse­nault
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Fic­tion
Final Table: A Novel
Dan Schorr
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The Cost of Liv­ing and Oth­er Mysteries
Saul Gol­ub­cow
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