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Reviews

Israel Is Real

By Samuel G. Freedman

Many of these passages made me feel like I'd just heard an improbable and brilliant jazz solo, the kind that makes me whisper to a companion, "That was so out." [9 August 2009]

Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen

By C.W. Thompson

He views these subjects (his family) from a distance, and this enables him to study them, as they are, in their complicated, ugly glory. [6 December 2006]