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Indifference and Cruelty: What Made Nazi Germany Possible

Indifference and Cruelty: What Made Nazi Germany Possible

Géraldine Schwarz Reckons With Her Family's WWII History

By Géraldine Schwarz | September 21, 2020

Discovering My Jewish Family Member's Star Badge

Discovering My Jewish Family Member's Star Badge

On the Material Legacy of the Holocaust

By Ariana Neumann | February 5, 2020

30 Years to Write"> Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took<br

Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took<br

30 Years to Write">

30 Years to Write">Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took
30 Years to Write

Caroline Scott on Realizing an Unlikely Family Dream

By Caroline Scott | December 5, 2019

Rebecca F. Kuang on Violence, History, and Writing a Female Warrior

Rebecca F. Kuang on Violence, History, and Writing a Female Warrior

The Poppy War on the New Books Network">In Conversation About The Poppy War on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | November 15, 2019

On the Universal Urgency of Immigrant Literature

On the Universal Urgency of Immigrant Literature

Christopher Castellani: "Every child of immigrants is born into a sense of loss."

By Christopher Castellani | October 7, 2019

Finding Cherokee America: Deciphering My Convoluted Family History

Finding Cherokee America: Deciphering My Convoluted Family History

It Took Margaret Verble Twenty Years to Write Her Novel and It Was Worth It

By Margaret Verble | February 19, 2019

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Writing Absurdity in Zimbabwe's Contemporary Dystopia

By Novuyo Rosa Tshuma | January 29, 2019

Scenes from a Life in 1930s Berlin

By Jeffrey Koenig | November 29, 2018

Collecting the Last, Lost Stories of WWII

By Bart Van Es | July 26, 2018

What is the Writer's Responsibility To Those Unable to Tell Their Own Stories?

What is the Writer's Responsibility To Those Unable to Tell Their Own Stories?

On Writing About Autism, Alzheimer's, and Coma Patients

By Stefan Merrill Block | April 3, 2018

Writing About Alcohol Brought Me Back from the Brink of Addiction

Writing About Alcohol Brought Me Back from the Brink of Addiction

Hope Ewing on a Paradoxical Path Out of Family History

By Hope Ewing | November 27, 2017

The Story I Tell Myself About My Father's Death

The Story I Tell Myself About My Father's Death

"I Was So Convinced My Whole Life That Asking About My Father Might Kill Me"

By Sharon Harrigan | October 6, 2017

Growing Up As An Untouchable

Growing Up As An Untouchable

Sujatha Gidla and the Story of Lower Caste Family

By Sujatha Gidla | July 18, 2017

Legends of the Fall"> The Case of Mistaken Identity Behind <em

The Case of Mistaken Identity Behind <em

Legends of the Fall">

Legends of the Fall">The Case of Mistaken Identity Behind Legends of the Fall

Will the Real William Ludlow Please Stand Up?

By Jamie Harrison | June 14, 2017

Don't Call Slaves

Don't Call Slaves "Immigrants"

The truth requires specificity that is sometimes violent and ugly

By Dionne Ford | March 31, 2017

Everyone Used to Raise Hogs

Everyone Used to Raise Hogs

On a Family History of Pig Farming

By Josh Foreman | October 14, 2016

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