A new Anne Frank biography takes a generous view of the liberties taken with her legacy
Ruth Franklin's 'The Many Lives of Anne Frank' complements the diarist's story and refuses to police its interpretation by ...
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank
In the latest entry to Yale's 'Jewish Lives' series, Franklin explores the history and legacy of the most famous witness to ...
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Anne Frank didn’t live here — she never had the chance
For my bat mitzvah, my parents surprised me with a stop in Amsterdam — en route home from Israel to New Jersey — to visi. It ...
Timeless Elegance: The Most Iconic Women of Old Hollywood
During the early and mid-20th century, we saw a wealth of glittering actresses during Hollywood's Golden Age. Lasting from ...
What really happened inside the home of the monster of Auschwitz
As the world marks the 80th year of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, author Thomas Harding is one of the few people who ...
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Landed gentry and celebrated officers with a knack for creative pursuits: inside the lives of Jane Austen's seven siblings, as Miss Austen is released
As Miss Austen, a new series focused on Cassandra Austen, debuts on the BBC, we delve into the history of the other Austen ...
The Anthony Hopkins Movies That Everyone Needs To See
Anthony Hopkins was well into his fifties when he became a Hollywood leading man, especially when he won the Oscar for Best Actor for playing Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs in 1991. But ...
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Catherine Breillat’s Unsettling Cinema of Desire
In the French director Catherine Breillat’s film “Fat Girl,” from 2001, two adolescent sisters go on summer holiday with ...
William E. Leuchtenburg, eminent presidential historian and Ken Burns consultant, dies at 102
(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Get ready for some fabulous Insider Deals ... Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin ...