In the 1930s, Rebecca Donner’s great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack helped organize a clandestine circle of anti-Nazi resisters in Berlin. In “All the Frequent Troubles of Our…
View More The American Resistance Leader Executed on Hitler’s OrdersCategory: Culture & Traditions
New in Paperback: ‘Aftershocks’ and ‘Here We Are’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.Six new paperbacks to check out this week.Read MoreBooks and Literature, True Story: A Novel (Book), Petty, Kate…
View More New in Paperback: ‘Aftershocks’ and ‘Here We Are’A Novel Explores What Happens When Adoption Means Maladaptation
The narrator of Ashley Nelson Levy’s debut novel, “Immediate Family,” grapples with infertility and with a brother who’s never quite fit in.The narrator of Ashley…
View More A Novel Explores What Happens When Adoption Means MaladaptationIn Literary Fiction, Are Capital-P Politics Always at Play?
Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut, “Radiant Fugitives,” sets an intimate family story against the Obama-era backdrop it can’t escape.Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut, “Radiant Fugitives,” sets an intimate family…
View More In Literary Fiction, Are Capital-P Politics Always at Play?The Nights When New York Felt Alive Again
Over eight weeks this summer we documented nightlife as New Yorkers returned to the city’s deeply missed party scene. It ended up being a brief…
View More The Nights When New York Felt Alive AgainArthur French, Negro Ensemble Company Pioneer, Dies at 89
He more or less stumbled into a career as an actor, but it proved to be a long and prolific one, on film, on television…
View More Arthur French, Negro Ensemble Company Pioneer, Dies at 89Britney Spears Asks for Quick Hearing to Oust Her Father as Conservator
In a court filing on Thursday, a lawyer for the singer said that she would be harmed if her request to remove her father was…
View More Britney Spears Asks for Quick Hearing to Oust Her Father as ConservatorWith the Golden Globes Tarnished, the Group Behind Them Adapts
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association revised its bylaws to expand its leadership, diversify its membership and ban gifts.The Hollywood Foreign Press Association revised its bylaws…
View More With the Golden Globes Tarnished, the Group Behind Them AdaptsFrom Anthony Veasna So, Glimpses of Cambodian Life in California
The author set many of the stories in his posthumously published debut, “Afterparties,” in and around his native Stockton.The author set many of the stories…
View More From Anthony Veasna So, Glimpses of Cambodian Life in CaliforniaNew York Live Arts Announces Celebration Season
New work by Bill T. Jones, Colleen Thomas, Christopher Williams and Raja Feather Kelly will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Manhattan arts center.New work…
View More New York Live Arts Announces Celebration Season