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It's the summer of 2008, and Andrei Kaplan doesn't have a whole lot going for him in New York. Money's tight, his girlfriend dumped him, and, at 33, his academic career has stalled. So, at the urging...
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During World War II, the British were worried about their own countrymen with Nazi sympathies. That's the historical basis for Kate Atkinson's new novel, Transcription . It follows a character named...
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