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A dramatic new translation of the Bible's most subversive book renders Job's story far more radical than ever before.

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I’ve met enough writers to know my story isn't all that unusual, although I would challenge anyone to match my record of seven different editors for a first novel.

"Full disclosure: Chernobyl—the accident, not the HBO series—and I have some shared history." Dispatches from a life lived within 80 miles of the dead zone.

Why are American and British literature two different things if they’re both mostly written in English, and how exactly do we delineate those differences?