Hitler
Anti-Semitism in Western Music
The Music Libel Against the JewsBy Ruth HaCohen (Yale University Press, 507 pp., $55) READ MORE >>
Jews, Swedes, and the Shoah, and other films
La Rafle Simon & the Oaks Sister HITLER’S FACE appears. The screen changes. To make that face the very first image of a film is to wipe away millions of possibilities, is to affirm the ice-shock of evil. We watch these clips from the swift visit that he made to Paris in June of 1942, and bound though we already are, we wonder what this film can tell us of his hell that we don’t already know. READ MORE >>
Turkey's Prime Minister Wants War in Syria. Turks Don't.
From the Archives: Eugene Genovese on Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm (Pantheon, 627 pp., $30) READ MORE >>
Two Darknesses
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937–1948 By Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward (Harper Collins, 467 pp., $29.99) READ MORE >>
Whether or not Mitt Romney’s multiple gaffes in London end up hurting his presidential campaign, they’re a good opportunity to remember that political skirmishes have always been part of the world’s premier international sporting event. Which should come as no surprise: Given that the athletics are themselves considered displays of national prowess, it’s only natural that they become proxies for grander geopolitical struggles. READ MORE >>
The Limits of Feeling
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964–2001 By W.G. Sebald Translated by Iain Galbraith (Random House, 166 pp., $25) READ MORE >>
The Alibi of Ambiguity
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy DilemmaBy Barbara Will (Columbia University Press, 274 pp., $35) IdaBy Gertrude Stein Edited by Logan Esdale (Yale University Press, 348 pp., $20) Stanzas in Meditation: The Corrected EditionBy Gertrude Stein Edited by Susannah Hollister and Emily Setina (Yale University Press, 379 pp., $22) READ MORE >>
