Francine Prose
Men explain Anne Frank to me
From Philip Roth to Ryan Murphy, men keep pretending Anne Frank survived the Holocaust. Why?
The Oscars, Mario Vargas Llosa’s Latest And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
It’s Oscars weekend, and, for once, the often-predictable ceremony has the potential to be genuinely interesting.
Is ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Anti-Feminist?
“Watching the aftermath of a woman getting her eye gouged out is different than reading about it.”
Philip Roth, Stephen Sondheim Join Writers Exhorting Trump To Reconsider Immigration Ban
Philip Roth, Stephen Sondheim and Art Spiegelman have lent their names to an open letter beseeching President Trump to reconsider restricting entry to the country for refugees from around the world and immigrants from a group of Muslim-majority countries.
Meet the Author Calling for a General Strike To Resist Trump
‘If there’s anything you can do to forestall what seems like likely bad consequences, you should do it.’
Jonathan Safran Foer, Deborah Levy And More Make NYT Notable Books List
The Jewish authors on the list included a finalist for the Man-Booker Prize and the author of a stunning debut novel.
How Peggy Guggenheim Re-Invented Modernism
Peggy Guggenheim was, by all accounts, an adventurer, a pioneer and a force that propelled a slew of artists into fame and infamy. But is novelist and essayist Francine Prose up to the task of immortalizing her? Elaine Margolin isn’t so sure.
The Cross-Dressing Racecar Driver Who Aided the Nazis (It's Mostly True!)
A cross-dressing lesbian racecar driver helped the Nazis breach French defenses. It may sound preposterous, but Francine Prose’s latest novel is actually based on fact.
Reading When Wet: Highlights of the Brooklyn Book Festival
From the looks of the Brooklyn Book Festival, you’d guess we were a far better read country than we are. But then, this borough is skewed: The one letter that prevents its name from being Booklyn is either adventitious or bashert. Brooklyn’s bookish populace loves dropping that “r,” and even as rain spat on their fun on Sunday, the literature festival seemed larger and livelier than ever before.
See Anne Frank Footage Here
We didn’t know how much truth we were telling.