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Ruth Franklin

Ruth Franklin is a book critic and the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, which has just appeared in paperback.

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    Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi (1947)

    A masterpiece by the poet of the unspeakable

    byRuth Franklin
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    A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz (2002)

    Mining the seam between memory and imagination

    byRuth Franklin
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    The Chosen, Chaim Potok (1967)

    Williamsburg’s original hipsters balance religion and modernity

    byRuth Franklin
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    Do We Still Need Yom HaShoah?

    The commemorative day is confusing and arbitrary. Let’s find a more meaningful alternative.

    byRuth Franklin
  • (Melanie McDermott/Flickr)
    (Melanie McDermott/Flickr)
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    Bring On the Plum Pudding

    Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love Christmas

    byRuth Franklin
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    Agent Provocateur

    In Arnon Grunberg’s fiction, there are no unmentionables

    byRuth Franklin
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