18 of the Best Books for National Reading Month
Frisky fish, pensive poets, illicit lovers...and more
By Kseniya Melnik, Elliott Holt, Leigh Haber, Dotun Akintoye, Natalie Beach and Hamilton Cain
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The Yid
By Paul Goldberg
320 pages;
Picador
No act of violence, no sacred subject, no reference high or low escapes Goldberg's manic, discursive delight in this novel of an old Jewish stage actor and the unlikely troupe he assembles to assassinate Joseph Stalin.
— Dotun Akintoye
Published 03/01/2016