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David’s newest novel, The Double, presents a Kafkaesque fable satirizing autocracy and the corruption it creates. Viktor X., a low-level government data analyst, is kidnapped by Gray Men as he crosses the Plaza of Heroes on his way to the Presidential Palace. He is to be metamorphosed into a doppelgänger to protect a brutal dictator from assassination. Viktor struggles with losing his identity as he is forced to adopt another.
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The ongoing renovation of the House of Bagels a few blocks from my home says something about what’s at stake in the midterm elections. Carolyn and I have been buying bagels at the House of B. for fifty years. Our kids always were given a tiny bagel. Walking around our neighborhood today triggers such nostalgia,…