The films changing how we understand the Holocaust
The genocide has been endlessly churned through the Hollywood machine, resulting in melodrama, insensitivity and triteness. Three new films attempt…
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The genocide has been endlessly churned through the Hollywood machine, resulting in melodrama, insensitivity and triteness. Three new films attempt…
ByJonathan Glazer’s abject Oscars speech for The Zone of Interest served to downplay the inhumanity his film so powerfully depicts.
ByJonathan Glazer’s astonishing adaptation of Martin Amis’s novel is the antidote to Schindler’s List.
ByA rediscovered memoir from an Auschwitz survivor offers powerful lessons for our own reckonings with the Holocaust.
ByDetractors forget we won’t always be able to depend on the living testimony of Holocaust survivors.
ByA luxury hotel protects the affluent in Sven Holm’s Termush, a rediscovered 1967 dystopia that sheds light on our own…
ByGazing down from the Reichstag’s glass dome, I was reminded that Britain is not alone in facing unstable politics.
ByJohn Boyne’s shameless sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas exemplifies a genre that expunges the genocide of its…
ByTaking painful truths to heart often requires imagining the unimaginable.
ByVolodymyr Groysman on what the West got wrong about Russia and how it can help Ukraine win its war.
ByFrom Maus to The Bluest Eye, US conservatives seem to want to shelter pupils for ever. It won't work.
ByTwo histories of the Holocaust reveal the what we didn't know about the concentration camps.
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