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BooksThe true story of an American warlord: Book reviewAmerican Warlord is required reading for human rights advocates, even if it occasionally tumbles into laborious minutiae, writes reviewer Michael Fraiman
BooksPerfect answers and creeping doubt: Book reviewA new memoir details one man’s decision to leave an ultra-conservative strain of Hasidic Judaism for the modern world
LifeHow the bed bug took over the worldThere is no surefire way to be rid of the scourge of bed bugs; there’s a reason we use the term ‘pest control’ and not ‘pest annihilation’
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