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Fame Is Fickle

MacKinlay Kantor and his magnum opus are largely forgotten. Tom Shroder dives the legacy of his grandfather, who was once a big deal
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Shop Talk

In ‘The Face of Water,’ Sarah Ruden aims to convey the intimate, humble, intrusive, and inescapably rude process of translating the Bible
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Holy Week Staff Picks

A pair of novels, a collection of essays, an analysis of economics and Christian desire, mystical short stories, and a compendium of works on the undead
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Hurt into Literature

This first volume of Kafka’s life covers the years just before his creative breakthrough in 1912 with ‘The Judgment’ and ‘The Metamorphosis’