Out and About
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The New Republic has hired back Franklin Foer as editor.
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Crown Heights gets a Hasidic art gallery.
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Could Boris Gelfand become the first Israeli world chess champion?
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Zackary Sholem Berger explores the Hasidic literary underground.
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White-collar criminal Andrew G. Bodnar wasn’t just ordered to write a book as part of his sentence, he also considered “Call me a schlemiel” as the opening line.
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New Yorker art editor Francoise Mouly talks to the Chicago Reader about picking covers, Maurice Sendak, and more.
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A four-volume history of the Holocaust has been published in Farsi, for Iranians.
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Film scholar Amos Vogel, who founded the New York Film Festival, has died at age 91.
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