The physicist’s refuge from assassins on a British heath changed the course of history, as a new docudrama shows
Zone of Interest isn’t just a film about Nazis. This is a film about us.
When Communist writer Albert Maltz was blacklisted in the McCarthyist era, no commercial publisher in the U. S. would touch his novel A Tale of One January. A new edition slated for US distribution means his 70-year blacklist will finally end.
In an Israeli war that has been retrofitted onto a Holocaust template, it is obscene that a plea to stop further killing is now read as moral failure.
In the 1940s, a series of books tried to use the conventions of detective fiction to expose the degree of prejudice in postwar America. Their books — along with Sinatra’s song and film; Richard Wright’s memoir, coincided with a surge of activism.
Judith Berlowitz’s historical novel offers readers a peek into the Spanish Civil War and the idealism that brought people from across the globe together to fight for democratic governance and human rights.
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Despite what you’ve read, most of them didn’t resist.
Here is a history of fascism in Europe that may be helpful as we consider this troubled, and troubling, moment.
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