Lauren Wein
By Lauren Wein
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Culture Why Donald Trump’s Election Is Like a Book — The Problem Is We’ve Read It Before
No matter the plot, a great novel deftly walks the knife edge between the life force and the death drive — letting the reader know that the stakes in the book, as in life, are always high. A great novel doesn’t preach or set out a situation in black and white. It is capacious enough…
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Culture In Holocaust Novel, She Heard Echoes of Her Own Family
One morning last spring, a colleague of mine told me about a Hungarian novel she’d been sent to consider for publication. She loved what she had read, but wondered if it would be better suited for me. At its most satisfying, our work as book editors introduces us to stories that deepen our experience of…
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