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Leonardo Padura
May 31, 2017
There’s a New Literary Celebrity in Town, and His Name Is Baruch Spinoza
Rachel Kadish’s "The Weight of Ink" is like A.S. Byatt's "Possession," but with more seventeenth-century Judaism.
April 26, 2017
A Crime Novelist Investigates Cuba’s Polyphonic Past
The new novel by Leonardo Padura is a multigenerational epic of baseball, religion, and a mysterious Rembrandt painting.

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