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...died in 1950. “The Prophet’s Wife” is an unfinished manuscript, long preserved in boxes of papers and correspondence, and only now edited and presented to the public. The book has no ending, though not for lack of trying by numerous Jewish novelists??including Steinberg’s close friend, Herman Wouk—who were asked to provide one and failed. But at over 300 pages, “The Prophet’s Wife” doesn’t lack for thought-provoking content...
...fictional story of a child soldier in an unnamed West African country. After receiving nearly 200 submissions from publishers and agents around the country, six judges in the Granta magazine office narrowed the list of “America’s Best Young Novelists??—published in the magazine’s April edition—down to 21 authors under age 35, wrote Ian Jack, editor of the quarterly magazine and chair of the judging committee, in an e-mail. “Making a list of this kind is never a perfect...
...Sure, the book, cumbersomely titled “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” provides Future Great American Novelists?? jealous bitterness some vindication. “Opal Mehta” is, as my friend Leon Neyfakh ’07 wrote in Fifteen Minutes last month, “a fairy tale, more or less,” and a lot of its details are as unconvincing and unfelt as pre-Pixar Disney...
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