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Nonfiction Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy Eilene Zimmerman
Nonfiction The Gaming Mind: A New Psychology of Videogames and the Power of Play Alexander Kriss
Nonfiction The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life Andrew Blauner
Nonfiction Can Robots Be Jewish?: Inspirational Rabbis Answer Pressing Questions of Modern Life Amy E. Schwartz
Nonfiction Growing Weed in the Garden: A No-Fuss Seed-to-Stash Guide to Outdoor Cannabis Cultivation Johanna Silver
Nonfiction Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America Hilary Levey Friedman
Nonfiction In Defense of Elitism: Why I’m Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn’t Buy This Book Joel Stein
Nonfiction Modern Manhood: Conversations About the Complicated World of Being a Good Man Today Cleo Stiller
Essay The Last Great Jewish Novel Was a Movie: A Look Back at the Coen Brothers’ ‘A Serious Man’ An examination of the literary influences behind the film, a decade after its release. Andrew Ridker March 19, 2019
Nonfiction The Case of the Sexy Jewess: Dance, Gender and Jewish Joke-work in US Pop Culture Hannah Schwadron