(The Conversation) — My earliest religious memory is of our synagogue’s Ner Tamid: the decorative electric lamp that hangs in every sanctuary, above the ark holding the Torah scrolls. This lamp, I ...

I am a novelist whose publisher is Harper Collins, the same publisher as the writer I am reviewing. Paul Dalgarno’s novel A Country of Eternal Light opens with his narrator, Margaret Bryce, in a ...

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