Rosemary Sullivan defends conclusions in controversial Anne Frank book; HarperCollins to keep the title on sale
The author says in a statement that she has “full confidence” in the work that went into the book.
“It was like unfinished business”: University of Alberta professor David R. Marples on the historical and political context behind Putin’s war in Ukraine
“I never thought Ukrainians anywhere would welcome Russian occupation,” says Marples.
“There are probably people getting away with such things right now”: Sarah Weinman discusses her new book, about a con artist who convinced a right-wing pundit to save him from death row
Edgar Smith, the convicted murderer of a fifteen-year-old girl, found some powerful advocates in conservative writer William F. Buckley, Jr., and Alfred A. Knopf editor Sophie Wilkins.
Freedom to Read Week 2022: From Plato to fake news, Eric Berkowitz provides a concise and nuanced history of censorship in the West
The history of censorship is inextricable from the history of power and in a changing world, it behooves us to consider how to balance speech and security.
HarperCollins Germany to review controversial book about the betrayal of Anne Frank in light of questions about claims in it
The new book, which proposes a Jewish notary as the person responsible for giving up the Franks’ hiding place, has come under fire by historians who question its assertions.
Vampires, mad scientists, and American psychos: David J. Skal examines some cultural underpinnings of the horror genre
In its examination of the roots of American horror cinema, this single-volume survey is valuable, though it lacks follow-through in its second half.
David Bowie, Cindy Sherman, and Quentin Tarantino walk into a bar: Stuart Jeffries examines the legacy of postmodernism in his new work of cultural criticism
An outcropping of French theory, postmodernism is most evident in its connection to neoliberalism and our overtly consumerist society.
The subtle art of selling out: Adam Hammond investigates DIY gaming culture in his new book The Far Shore
Hammond has written a text that is frankly unclassifiable: part biography, part critical exegesis, part hipster manifesto.
“I want to be able to go in and out of hell with grace”: Shawn Hitchins on death, queer transformation, and the astonishing bass line in Boney M’s “Rasputin”
In his new memoir, the author contemplates his life and community in the wake of two significant figures dying within five months of each other.
The madness of art: Charlie English traces the congruence of mental illness, modernism, and artistic creation in a history with uncomfortable resonance for our present moment
A book about art produced by mentally ill psychiatric patients gave the Nazis cover first to eliminate the art, then to move on to the artists.