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Twelve years after his wife had an affair, Tom is driving west. Read the rest of our lives by

Ben Markovitz, the moving story of a life at a crossroads. Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize,

the observer says, an elegant, devastating book,

and The Guardian describes it as a triumphant twist on the great American role novel.

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The origins of today's conflict between American Jews over Israel by Mark Mazzauer, Israel was on American minds.

Colonial preachers called their new land, Canaan.

Herman Melville saw Americans as the peculiar chosen people, the Israel of our time.

In the second great awakening of the late 18th and early 19th century, American Protestants

became obsessed with the Holy Land, and it was perhaps in response that one Jewish preacher

had called in as early as 1818 for Jews

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