Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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Jewish Country Housesedited by Juliet Carey and Abigail Green(Profile Books)On the British sitcom To the Manor Born (1979-1981), a posh and haughty Englishwoman named Audrey fforbes-Hamilton finds herself widowed and financially obliged to sell her stately home in the countryside and move into a none-too-shabby outbuilding. The buyer is one Richard DeVere, proprietor of Cavendish Foods, previously residing in London. A new-money tycoon.

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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost IdealismSarah Wynn-Williams(Flatiron Books/Macmillan)It is not of memoir-worthy earth-shatteringness to have had a crummy job. Even those of us who've been lucky professionally had duds along the way. A boss from my early 20s berated the office for misdeeds entirely in her head, all part of the place her underlings held in some psychodrama. The more creative will use these experiences as inspiration for fiction.

3 weeks ago | theglobeandmail.com | Phoebe Maltz Bovy

3 weeks ago | thecjn.ca | Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Jewish professors are fleeing America for Canada. Wait, let me start over. Three American professors are departing one elite North American university (Yale) for another (University of Toronto). Two-historians Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore-are a married couple, and while both are esteemed profs, if we're talking about the rule of three-makes-a-trend, given the linkage in two of the three cases, I'm not sure this counts as such.