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Among this novel’s unexpected features is its setting: not Prague but Budapest, Hungary, in 1990. There, a...
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David Eggers’s fiction debut “You Shall Know Our Velocity,” falls staggeringly short of the high...
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In the summers of my youth, I devoured my father’s old children’s books. Among these was a collection of...
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot makes an unusual addition to the bedstands of most readers of American history. In this...
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