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Cohen’s NYT book review, “The Banality of Good”

“What Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française did for wartime France after six decades in obscurity, Fallada does for wartime Berlin”, so writes Roger Cohen in his laudatory review of Hans Fallada’s harrowing Every Man Dies Alone, now available in English more … Continue reading

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The Right Answer, And Other Nonexistent Things

by Thomas Mullen, author of  Last Town on Earth (Random House, 2007). When reading works of fiction, students often think that there’s a right answer for how they’re supposed to respond to the book.  Surely (as they’re sometimes taught in … Continue reading

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