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Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Madonna in a Fur Coat Natalie Aflalo September 22, 2017
Essay The So-Called Rules of Language, Literature, and Baseball Richard Michelson February 20, 2017
Essay Hiding in Plain Sight: A Private Yet Candid Yiddish Writer Earlier this week Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub wrote about their discovery of Blume Lempel’s transgressive Yiddish fiction, now translated into English as… Ellen Cassedy, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub December 14, 2016
Fiction Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories Blume Lempel; Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, trans.