The Survivor examines what happens to someone who made the decision to survive in Auschwitz — no matter how.
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Book Review: “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days” — Innovative History of a Female Anti-Nazi Resistance Leader
What holds this wildly ambitious book together and drives the narrative is Rebecca Donner’s unwavering, partisan voice.
Film Review: In Defense of “Woman in Gold”
Woman in Gold has novelty going for it — it is a film that depicts a woman’s passionate relationship to a piece of art.
Book Review: “The Zone of Interest” — Not Quite Interesting Enough
Martin Amis’s fiction, bleak though it often is, paradoxically remains compelling and pleasurable to read because of how well he writes about dreadful things.
Fuse Film Review: The Maine International Film Festival, Bar Harbor Edition
Two new documentaries: one a love story about two athletes, the other an attempt to chronicle a small resistance movement among German students against the Nazis.
Film Review: “Portrait of Wally” — Art As ‘Holocaust Loot’
“Portrait of Wally” makes for a wonderfully engaging documentary about art and postwar intrigue with stakes on both a personal and global scale.
Book Commentary: The Emperor of Lies = The Emperor’s New Clothes?
Should we fictionalize the Holocaust? This is not only a literary question, but a moral one as well, issues raised by the publication of the translation of “The Emperor of Lies,” a novel about the ways in which the Jews in the Lodz ghetto struggled to survive the Nazis.
Short Fuse: Tarantino’s Nazi-killing Cotton Candy
By Harvey Blume Let me tell you why I heartily dislike and contemn Quentin Tarantino’s “The Inglorious Basterds.”
Being Where?
Some of the best moments of my visit to documenta XII I spent in bed. Even though Loekie and I had decided this time not to try to see everything and to spend as much time on a display as we wanted, and even though we stuck to this strategy and enjoyed the exhibition all […]