Seven years after his debut, the award-winning story collection “For the Relief of Unbearable Urges,” Nathan Englander has finally published a second book. nabokov novel His publisher must be relieved that it’s a novel. Even readers who end up not liking “The Ministry of Special Cases” ought at least to admire Englander’s good sense.
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Followers of Falun Gong say it;s a spiritual movement with no political motives. But the community;s sometimes alienating methods of protesting their persecution, and their evasiveness over links to front organisations, don;t help their cause, writes Tim Hume.
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