Assaf Gavron

Fuse Books: Notable Volumes, For Better or Worse, in 2015

Our demanding critics supply lists of books that piqued their interest this of the year.

Assaf Gavron’s sweeping, smart, often funny new novel spins a satiric update on Exodus.

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Michael Wolfe June 29, 2020 at 3:05 pm on Poetry and Prose Review: Joseph Brodsky — Revisiting an IconVery informative and smart. Thanks for this survey of an important Russian poet in translation. For those of us who...
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Nora June 29, 2020 at 12:04 am on Television Review: “Beecham House” — A Steamy Passage to IndiaThis review is on target except for a couple of items. First, John Beecham makes quite a few bad decisions...