Ruth Franklin

Desperately Seeking Stability

Paula Fox keeps finding ways to explore the conflict between chaos and control.

Ruth Franklin | BOOKS | Monday, May 16, 2011, at 6:45 AM

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Portrait of the Artist as an Immigrant

Ha Jin's quintessentially Chinese-American novel.

Ruth Franklin | BOOKS | Monday, Nov. 19, 2007, at 2:35 PM

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Summer Books

What Slate is reading this summer.

Dan Chiasson, Tyler Cowen, Ruth Franklin, Jody Rosen, and Amanda Schaffer | BOOKS | Tuesday, July 3, 2007, at 7:24 AM

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Falling Man

Ruth Franklin | THE BOOK CLUB | Thursday, May 24, 2007, at 1:50 PM

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Falling Man

Ruth Franklin | THE BOOK CLUB | Wednesday, May 23, 2007, at 12:16 PM

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God's Frozen People

Michael Chabon carves out a Jewish state in Alaska.

Ruth Franklin | BOOKS | Tuesday, May 8, 2007, at 12:30 PM

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Primo Levi's Alchemy

Don't read the Holocaust into everything he wrote.

Ruth Franklin | BOOKS | Monday, April 9, 2007, at 11:44 AM

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The Triumph of the Real

Daniel Mendelsohn's peculiar argument about the Holocaust and fiction.

Ruth Franklin | BOOKS | Friday, Sept. 29, 2006, at 8:45 AM

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