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Leonard Cohen’s lost novel shows the artist’s surprisingly vulgar and violent side
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They fled the hell of Auschwitz, but that was not the only catastrophe they faced
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Netanyahu memoir: Democrats feeling more leftist pressure on Israel than they publicly admit
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‘He sounds like a child’: What Trump really thought of Kushner, and more highlights from Maggie Haberman’s new book
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