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(JTA) — At some point during my reading of Zachary Solomon’s debut novel, “A Brutal Design,” I needed to look up Duma, the utopian city-state where the novel is set,

"I’m thinking of the words Nabokov used to describe a character in the story 'Spring in Fialta': 'something lovely, delicate, and unrepeatable.'”

"Perennials" is a 2017 novel by Mandy Berman, a young writer from the New York City area. It concerns the lives of young women going to a hor...

"Perennials" is a 2017 novel by Mandy Berman, a young writer from the New York City area. It concerns the lives of young women going to a hor...

Unemployment rate falls another tenth to 3.1 percent The Vermont Department of Labor has reported that the seasonally-adjusted statewide unemployment rate for February was 3.1 percent. This reflects a decrease of one-tenth of one percentage point from the prior month’s revised estimate of 3.2 percent. The comparable United States rate in February was 6.2 percent, which was a decrease of one-tenth of one percentage point from the revised January estimate. The decline is largely due to a sharp ...