Jewish author Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” is part comic-book origin story, part immigrant saga and part love letter to New York City at its most scrappy and dazzling.

Published in 2000, the novel follows the trajectory of Joe Kavalier, a Houdini-obsessed escape artist who flees Nazi-occupied Prague, and his quick-witted Brooklyn cousin, Sammy Clay. Together they conjure The Escapist, a superhero who punches Nazis on the page while, at the same time, the cousins wrestle with them in real life. The duo’s ascent in the comic book world mirrors the Golden Age of American comics, and the novel delves into themes of Holocaust trauma, Jewish identity, ambition and the transformative nature of pop culture.

And now, 25 years after th

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