Uh-oh. You might expect Ruth Franklin to take everyone associated with the film to task in her new book, “The Many Lives of Anne Frank”: The charge of careless cultural appropriation seems ...
New book by Ruth Franklin explores how Anne Frank, the German Jewish teenager killed in the Holocaust, became a cultural icon ...
A melding of biography, literary exegesis and cultural history, this volume in the Yale University Press’s excellent Jewish ...
The title of Ruth Franklin’s The Many Lives of Anne Frank exudes a tragic and no doubt purposeful irony. A melding of biography, literary exegesis and cultural history, this volume in the Yale ...
Regular readers of this Notebook know that I am enamored of the outdated conceptual duo of nature and culture, which are not quite the opposite terms that the originators of that binary once thought.