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Nonfiction In the Lion’s Shadow: The Iranian Schindler and his Homeland in the Second World War Fariborz Mokhtari
Essay Writing Biography: The Historian’s Challenge, Part 2 On Tuesday, Gerald Sorin wrote about ambivalence toward the genre of biography. Today, he considers the question: Can the biographer or their readers really know the… Gerald Sorin November 8, 2012
Essay Writing Biography: The Historian’s Challenge, Part 1 Gerald Sorin’s most recent book, Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane, is now available. Gerald won the 2003 National Jewish Book Award in History for… Gerald Sorin November 6, 2012
Nonfiction The Holy Thief: A Con Man’s Journey From Darkness to Light Mark Horvitz; Alan Eisenstock
Nonfiction A Portrait of Pacifists: Le Chambon, the Holocaust, and the Lives of André and Magda Trocmé Richard P. Unsworth; Peter I. Rose, fwd.
Nonfiction Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890 – 1940 Stephen Brown, with an essay by Richard R. Brettell
