50 shades of unconditional longing in a tale of erotic obsession
Daphne Merkin’s “22 Minutes of Unconditional Love” is an erotic, metafictional tale of female submission.
What Trump (and Masha Gessen) can teach us about autocracy
For Masha Gessen, the Moscow-born author and Vladimir Putin’s biographer, Trump is an aspiring autocrat.
Philip Roth’s ‘terrible gift of intimacy’
Roth could seem to be “a beguiling but remote citadel: august, many-towered, lavishly defended.” Benjamin Taylor knew him better.
The suicide epidemic of World War II
In Demmin, a town of just 15,000, as many as 1,000 people took their own lives.
After the Holocaust, incalculable losses and jaw-dropping discoveries
With generosity and empathy, Hadley Freeman retells a fascinating family history.
At 99, a survivor tells his daring tale of heroism
“Our protagonist, Justus Rosenberg, is a risk-taker, and his first-hand account of the Nazi hysteria is gripping.”
In Amsterdam, borne back ceaselessly into a Jewish past
“House on Endless Waters” is an intensely clever literary construction that never compromises readability.
From Treblinka, a story of anguish and healing
For Diana Wichtel, facing the past felt superior to running from it.
On The Trail Of Nazis And Nazi Hunters In America
Though the work of the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations was virtuous, it was the subject of continual controversy.
A Survivor’s Story Where No One Is Exactly Who They Seem
Survival comes at a steep price: betraying family secrets and stirring anxieties that haven’t yet fully subsided.