Saturday, May 5

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SAT BOOK NOTES (5#) -

# ECHOES OF ROTH: Sarah Weinman reviews Nathan Englander's new book, The Ministry of Special Cases. [philly]

# DANCING INTO DANGER: An exotic dancer in an adult entertainment nightclub has a one-night stand with a man she assumes is a drug dealer only to subsequently discover that he is being depicted in a TV newscast as a fugitive terrorist and that she has been captured on a surveillance camera tape with him. The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan. Reviewed by Toby Clements. [tgraph]

# 'Hard-Boiled on Ice': C Max Magee writes a thoughtful review of The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon and gives it mixed points, some positive and some negative.

# An earlier, preliminary essay by Chabon.

# A Chabon review by
Benjamin Lytal. He liked it.

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