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Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: When Books Went to War Posted by Nat BernsteinIt’s Banned Books Week, the literary world’s defiant celebration of books that have lamentably been censored in schools, bookstores, and… Nat Bernstein September 24, 2014
Essay The Champagne Spy Nicholas Kulish is an author and correspondent for The New York Times. His most recent book, The Eternal Nazi, co-authored with Souad Mekhennet, is the story of Nazi… Nicholas Kulish June 9, 2014
Recommended Reading The Jews and the Second World War: A Reading List Earlier this week, Gwen Edelman wrote about building a walled ghetto in the middle of a city and a recent visit to Warsaw. Her most recent novel,… Gwen Edelman April 25, 2014
Nonfiction Adventurers Against Their Will: Extraordinary World War II Stories of Survival, Escape, and Connection-Unlike Any Others Joanie Holzer Schirm
Nonfiction Diary of the Dark Years, 1940- 1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris Jean Guehenno; David Ball, annotator and trans.
Essay A Moment of Kindness Earlier this week, Charles Belfoure wrote about the material he cut from his novel, The Paris Architect (Sourcebooks Landmark). He has been blogging here all week… Charles Belfoure October 17, 2013
Nonfiction Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939 – 1941 Lynne Olson
Essay Collective Guilt vs. Collective Fear: Shame, Truth, and Reconciliation In her first two installments of “Collective Guilt vs. Collective Fear,” Randy Susan Meyers wrote about an essay in which the writer met with an elderly former SS… Randy Susan Meyers May 17, 2013
