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Book Appreciation: A.B. Yehoshua’s “Mr. Mani” — A Great Work of Fiction

July 7, 2022
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A.B. Yehoshua was anything but a provincial Israeli writer. He was literary giant whose imaginative gift was so striking and diverse that you never knew what he would do next.

Book Review: A. B. Yehoshua’s “The Extra” — A Genius for Dissecting Family Matters

June 27, 2016
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This canny writer is concerned with the kind of complicated family relationships that engaged his Jewish literary forebears.

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