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Culture Still pining for John McCain, a ‘Big Guy’ seeks to take back his country
In A.M. Homes' novel 'The Unfolding,' the Jewish author imagines a life antithetical to her own
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Culture How simply living as a woman can feel like a preexisting condition
Elissa Bassist's illness memoir is enraging, hysterically funny and very, very Jewish
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Culture Leonard Cohen’s lost novel shows the artist’s surprisingly vulgar and violent side
The songwriter wrote the novel 'A Ballet of Lepers' in his early 20s, but didn't publish it in his lifetime
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Culture They fled the hell of Auschwitz, but that was not the only catastrophe they faced
Jonathan Freedland's 'The Escape Artist' recounts an unforgettable story of Holocaust survival
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News Netanyahu memoir: Democrats feeling more leftist pressure on Israel than they publicly admit
In the new book, the former Israeli prime minister details his relations with four US presidents
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Culture The courageous German ‘orchestra’ that tried (and failed) to stop Hitler
Tom Dunkel's absorbing history chronicles the little-known exploits of the Germans' resistance in WWII
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Film & TV In Lena Dunham’s latest, a medieval teen gets a girlboss makeover she doesn’t need
The 'Girls' creator's adaptation of children's novel 'Catherine, Called Birdy' misses everything that made it a cult favorite
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News ‘He sounds like a child’: What Trump really thought of Kushner, and more highlights from Maggie Haberman’s new book
Former President Donald Trump often diminished and mocked Jared Kushner despite giving him an outsized role in the White House, the tell-all book claims
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