Ruth Franklin | The New York Review of Books

Writing Out of Annihilation

In the Warsaw Ghetto, the journalist Rokhl Auerbach risked her life to capture the stories of the Jewish community and, by writing about the people she knew, memorialized an entire lost world.

Warsaw Testament

by Rokhl Auerbach, translated from the Yiddish by Samuel Kassow

September 19, 2024 issue

The Millions We Failed to Save

The recent documentary The US and the Holocaust is a scathing, even bombastic indictment of US immigration policy over the past 160 years.

The US and the Holocaust

a PBS documentary series directed and produced by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein

In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust

by Richard Hurowitz

June 22, 2023 issue

Letter

Rebecca Erbelding

The Few Who Made It

September 21, 2023 issue

Beyond the Betrayal

Why are we so eager to assign a single person blame for revealing the hiding place of Anne Frank and her family?

The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

by Rosemary Sullivan

May 26, 2022 issue

‘The Lucky Ones’

Several groundbreaking new books chronicle the fate of the quarter-million or so Polish Jews who evaded Hitler only to wind up in the hands of Stalin.

In the East: How My Father and a Quarter Million Polish Jews Survived the Holocaust

by Mikhal Dekel

Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union

by Eliyana R. Adler

Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag

by Julius Margolin, translated from the Russian by Stefani Hoffman, with a foreword by Timothy Snyder and an introduction by Katherine R. Jolluck

October 21, 2021 issue

Fiction and Life

February 25, 2021 issue

A Sickness in the Air

Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind imagines the world after a global disaster, but its real subject is white entitlement.

Leave the World Behind

by Rumaan Alam

February 11, 2021 issue

Letter

Rumaan Alam

Fiction and Life

February 25, 2021 issue

‘Life Peeled of Its Skin’

Strange Hotel

by Eimear McBride

September 24, 2020 issue

L’Engle’s Cosmic Catechism

Even more than the many theological memoirs Madeleine L’Engle wrote later in life, ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ and its successors represent her spiritual autobiography

The Kairos Novels: The Wrinkle in Time and Polly O’Keefe Quartets

by Madeleine L’Engle, edited by Leonard S. Marcus

Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Unexpected Places

by Madeleine L’Engle, with a foreword by Charlotte Jones Voiklis

The Rock That Is Higher: Story as Truth

by Madeleine L’Engle, with a foreword by Sarah Bessey

March 12, 2020 issue