Mark Shechner
By Mark Shechner
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Culture Exit Zuck
Exit Ghost By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin, 304 pages, $26. Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy & Epilogue 1979–1985: “The Ghost Writer,” “Zuckerman Unbound,” “The Anatomy Lesson,” “The Prague Orgy,” and (previously unpublished) television screenplay for “The Prague Orgy” By Philip Roth Library of America, 645 pages, $35. Reading Philip Roth’s new novel, “Exit Ghost,” is like…
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Culture Up From Pushkin Street
The Jewish Century By Yuri Slezkine Princeton University Press, 344 pages, $29.95. * * *| Yuri Slezkine begins the fourth chapter of his book, “The Jewish Century,” with a synopsis of Tevye’s daughters, from Sholom Aleichem’s “Tevye the Milkman,” as if it were a parable of all modern Jewish history. “Tsaytl rejected a wealthy suitor…
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Culture Roth’s Fanfare for the Common Man
The Plot Against America By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin Company, 400 pages, $26. —— Knitting domains together — domestic and global, story and back-story — always has been iffy for Philip Roth. He understands life best in the lower case — inside the family, the marriage, the disheveled heart, the desperate moment. His wide-angle work…
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Culture Out of Africa
The Persistence of Memory By Tony Eprile Norton, 288 pages, $24.95. —— ‘You know a country is in trouble when its Jews start leaving,” remarks a character in Tony Eprile’s new novel, “The Persistence of Memory.” “We are like the miner’s parakeet, and we are all going… to Australia, Canada, Israel, you name it.” The…
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News A Flutter of Nabokov, a Scurry of Kafka
A Faker’s Dozen: Stories By Melvin Jules Bukiet W.W. Norton & Company, 268 pages, $23.95. * * *| If a baker’s dozen is 13, then what is a faker’s dozen? Try 11, because that is the number of stories Melvin Jules Bukiet gives us in his new collection of stories, “A Faker’s Dozen.” You can…
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