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History Repeats Itself

The U.S. and its allies are moving in Syria toward a program of covert support for the rebels that looks very much like what America did in Afghanistan in the 1980s.The Wedding Guests Have Goose Feet

In postwar America, I.B. Singer was the one who made it—into English, into the pages of Playboy and Esquire and the New Yorker, into big Hollywood movies, into being thought “modern.”  But the identity politics that worked for Singer in the short term risk making him unread now.Nostalgia with a Jewish Soul

Michael Chabon’s latest novel conjures up the alternative reality of a San Francisco unspoiled by the tensions that complicate today’s relationship between Jews and African-Americans.