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Can a book about the Jewish Diaspora add anything useful on the topic if it's uninterested in Jewish history and slightly dodgy about the Diaspora? Jordan MaGill gives Alan Wolfe's At Home in Exile a close reading.
Read MoreNow back in print: an English translation of iconic Polish writer (and compulsive re-inventor of himself) Marek Hlasko's most powerful novel.
Read MoreThere were layers and layers to John Marshall, one of America's first and in many ways most important Chief Justices of the Supreme Court - but just how deep does the latest biography go?
Read More"Our belief in Literature has collapsed" Lars Iyer once wrote, but his new novel Wittgenstein Jr, the story of a passionate philosophy professor and his apathetic students, bristles with literary faith.
Read MoreA veteran and a newcomer give us two gripping thrillers: The Big Finish by the critically acclaimed master of suspense, James W. Hall, and The Life We Bury, a mesmerizing debut by Allen Eskens.
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