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Can Russian Lit Be the New Jewish Lit?

The title of Nadia Kalman’s promising debut novel, The Cosmopolitans (Livingston Press, 2010), refers to an internationalist – even global humanist – sensibility that her characters see as deeply Jewish and Russian. As one member of an avant-garde cadre of young Russian-Jewish writers, the author makes an undeniable case for the vibrancy of this cosmopolitan approach to literary expression.