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.

Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi (1947)
A masterpiece by the poet of the unspeakable
byRuth Franklin
A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz (2002)
Mining the seam between memory and imagination
byRuth Franklin
The Chosen, Chaim Potok (1967)
Williamsburg’s original hipsters balance religion and modernity
byRuth Franklin
Do We Still Need Yom HaShoah?
The commemorative day is confusing and arbitrary. Let’s find a more meaningful alternative.
byRuth Franklin
Bring On the Plum Pudding
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love Christmas
byRuth Franklin
Agent Provocateur
In Arnon Grunberg’s fiction, there are no unmentionables
byRuth Franklin

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