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Essay Sex and the Survivor: Elie Wiesel’s “Day” and a Contemporary Woman Writer Courtney Sender March 15, 2023
Nonfiction The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression Luiz Schwarcz; Eric M. B. Becker, trans.
Nonfiction The Number on Your Forearm is Blue Like Your Eyes Eva Umlauf with Stefanie Oswalt; Shelley Frisch, trans.
Nonfiction In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust Richard Hurowitz
Essay The Gasp and the Questions: The Inspiration for ‘Code Name Sapphire’ Pam Jenoff February 6, 2023
Nonfiction The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp Simon Parker
Excerpt Excerpt — Invited to Life: Finding Hope after the Holocaust B. A. Van Sise January 23, 2023
Nonfiction The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler David I. Kertzer