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Long before the late Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector became a beloved literary figure there, she was Chaya, the third and last daughter born to a poor family in a Ukrainian shtetl. Her journey from Eastern Europe to South America and from indigent refugee child to celebrated, eccentric author—with a stint along the way as a ...

As of this week, the psychodrama of Jews, Germans, and World War II can be experienced at a theater near you in full Tarantinocolor, that exuberantly violent, talky, quaintly outrageous late 20th-century cinematic technology. Meanwhile, the publishing juggernaut keeps on truckin’, bringing forth yet more thrillers, fictional or not, that draw intrigue and excitement out of the Third Reich’s crimes.