For These Doomed Passengers, There Was No Refuge in Cuba
Passengers on board the St. Louis fleeing Nazi Germany discover both cultural displacement and loss in Armando Correa’s “The German Girl.”
Why Hollywood Used To Be Better For Women
In the 1950s, the culture — in Hollywood and elsewhere — turned increasingly hostile toward women.
Before Sondheim And Miranda, There Was Rodgers And Hammerstein
Both Rodgers and Hammerstein had wives named Dorothy, and both women were interior decorators.
Paul Goldberg’s Dizzying Plunge Into The Kingdom Of Uselessness
“If you read Trump with an open mind, he is like Albert Camus.”
A Devastating History Of Genocide — In One Ukrainian Town
When Poles and Ukrainians battled, Jews tended to be scapegoated by both sides.
A Family, Dispersed And Splintered By The Holocaust
Petrowskaja lost a maternal great-grandmother and great-aunt to the infamous shootings at Babi Yar,
Dara Horn Asks The Fundamental Questions Of Life — Eternal And Otherwise
“Horn manages to enmesh us in Rachel’s psychic torments — of being buffeted by history without the hope of an ending.”
A 95-Year-Old War Hero Tells His Story
Many of his friends, particularly the Jewish ones, asked him, “After all that happened in Germany, don’t you want to divorce yourself from it?”
How A Father-and-Son Story Became A Real-Life Odyssey
Mendelsohn dares readers to engage with the complexities of the epic poem and apply its lessons to their own lives.
Paranoia, Spies and Ariel Sharon in Nathan Englander’s Twisty New Thriller
“One of the novel’s principal characters, known only as the General, is clearly modeled on former Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon.
