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.
To Protect A Predator: How Ronan Farrow Unmasked A Conspiracy
Farrow’s book is as riveting as any spy thriller.
From Poland To The USSR To Iran To Israel: A Holocaust Story
This book is a major achievement and an important addition to the literature of the Holocaust.
Pregnant At 57, A Woman Finds Tragedy And Reconciliation
“Never before had she kept a secret from Yidel; never had she felt so lonely or so powerful.”
How They Brought Down Harvey Weinstein And Jump-Started #MeToo
This should be required reading in journalism programs for its insights into how reportorial grit and savvy can crack walls of denial
The Blood Libel Accusation That Inflamed America
The idea of ritual murder originated with the 12th-century treatise of an English monk, Thomas of Monmouth,
George Gershwin’s Mercilessly Short Summertime
It’s hard to read the story of George Gershwin without feeling a sense of loss.
In A Forged Van Gogh, A Real Story Of Lives Uprooted By Nazis
Clare Clark’s novel portrays a Berlin of deepening shadows, beset by hyperinflation and violence, darkened by the eclipse of freedom.
How The War Against Sexual Harassment Was Won
“Reckoning” is ambitious if not always fully convincing in linking changing attitudes toward sexual harassment to larger debates over gender and sex.
His Father, The Communist
Elliott Maraniss grew up in Coney Island, a descendant of Marrano Jews from Spain who had migrated to the Odessa region, then the United States.
