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Oct 23, 2024 | 
jewishbookcouncil.org | Chloe Cheimets
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Alexander Sorondo |Chloe Cheimets |Adam Mansbach |Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Joyce Carol Oates at Brooklyn Book Festival | editrrix / CC BY-SA 2.0One of the challenges for a reviewer looking to write about Joyce Carol Oates’s most recent books is the context of her larger body of work, which is so huge that a mere mention of it can eclipse the new release. The two titles released this year join more than 60 novels (under three pen names), plus volumes of essays, poetry, stories, a memoir about widowhood, a collection of diaries, and scores of edited anthologies.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Emma Minor |Josephine Houman |Chloe Cheimets |Miranda Young
The Circus | Ollyy / Shutterstock The Material opens with a classroom of aspiring comedians workshopping their latest creations: “On Wednesdays, three of them had to perform, in turn, a four-to-six-minute routine that the whole class then proceeded to rip apart, joke by joke, beat by beat, until there wasn’t anything left and the budding comedians went home to consider other possible career paths.” This scene is hilariously reminiscent of budding writers sharing their work for the first time,...
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
westsiderag.com | Chloe Cheimets
in FOOD, NEWS By Chloe CheimetsIn January, I moved to San Francisco after fifteen years in New York City. My husband got a dream job offer across the country and off we went. As they say — when being gender-inclusive — happy spouse, happy house. Our last apartment was on West 73rd Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West, a fifth-floor walkup with a neighbor who was extremely diligent about practicing scales on his French horn every day.
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May 28, 2024 | 
jewishbookcouncil.org | Chloe Cheimets
Diaries play a unique role in Dutch World War II history. While Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl is known worldwide, Frank was only one of thousands of Dutch citizens who saved their wartime diaries.
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May 20, 2024 | 
jewishbookcouncil.org | Leah Cohen |Chloe Cheimets
Having been raised in a secular home with a racially and religiously mixed family, I was as surprised as anyone when, in my mid-forties and for reasons I still can’t explain, I joined a shul. I’d barely set foot in a synagogue before this, and everything sparked my curiosity. But the part that spoke to me the most was Torah study, which I attended every Shabbat morning. I was as interested in the people as I was in the texts we discussed.
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May 1, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Basak Kus |Pat Garofalo |Josephine Houman |Chloe Cheimets
Digital currency | Sasin Paraksa / ShutterstockThe history of capitalism is dotted with periods of public controversy about the nature of money and the ways societies should manage monetary systems. We are living through one of those periods. Shifts in macroeconomic policy in advanced economies since the 2008 financial crisis have challenged orthodoxies about money and its management by states.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Chloe Cheimets |Evangeline Riddiford Graham |Helen Schulman |Nicole Hemmer
Gustave Courbet, Woman with a Parrot (1866) | Public domainThe Vulnerables(Riverhead Books, 2023), Sigrid Nunez’s melancholy ninth novel, begins with a provocation. Despite what high school English coursework might have us believe, the book’s narrator observes, it’s not important to remember what happens in a piece of literature. What’s important is the reader’s “experience while reading, the states of feeling the story evokes.” Feel free, she suggests, to forget the plot.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
jewishbookcouncil.org | Chloe Cheimets |Karen Wilson
Skip to main content Jewish Book Council, founded in 1943, is the longest-running organization devoted exclusively to the support and celebration of Jewish literature. Get the latest reviews, news, and more in your inbox. Review By – March 4, 2024 In the world of Katya Apekina’s hallucinatory new novel, Mother Doll, a soul is not discrete — it’s porous and fragmentary.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
jewishbookcouncil.org | Chloe Cheimets
By – September 26, 2023 The central mystery in The Wolf Hunt, the fifth novel by Israeli writer Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, unveils itself in the first paragraph. A boy, Jamal Jones, has died. Adam, the protagonist’s son, is suspected of his murder. His mother Lilach doesn’t believe her beloved child could be capable of such violence. But who would trust a mother’s opinion of her own son?
