original_query: What did Elaine Margolin describe the book as in her review?
query: What did Elaine Margolin describe Rich Cohen's book 'Israel is Real' and 'The Fish That Ate The Whale' as in her reviews?
answer: In her review of 'Israel is Real', Elaine Margolin described the book as an "intoxicating narrative".  In her review of 'The Fish That Ate the Whale', she called it "piercing and terrifically intuitive", praising Cohen's ability to bring his pages to life.