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Through the Looking-Glass

Today on Tablet

by
Marc Tracy
August 23, 2011

In The Vices, novelist Lawrence Douglas weaves a self-consciously bookish tale about the American equivalent of a nobleman and his hamishe Jewish Boswell, only, as books critic Adam Kirsch explains today in Tablet Magazine, to slowly hint that perhaps the story is a little more complicated than it initially appears.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.