Books & Literature

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Long ago, I learned that you can’t judge a book by its title. But when I...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Chances are pretty good that most of us, or someone we know, can trace a family...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Irène Némirovsky’s slender novel is a model of economy, capturing an enormous range of emotion and...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Watching Hitler consolidate power while America slept was so dismaying to U.S. Ambassador William E. Dodd...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Remember the wire-service photo in 2000 of a bleeding civilian sitting in front of a shouting,...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Odds are the Ephrussi — to use the author’s charming plural — were the richest Jewish...

Jewish sports entrepreneurs and black baseball players forged unusual relationships in the early part of the 20th century Reviewed by...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER In a work of uncommon clarity, New York Times reporter Diana Henriques traces Bernie Madoff’s empire...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER The conviction of Alfred Dreyfus was so outrageous that it polarized France and led, indirectly, to...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Vasily Grossman’s writing sneaks up on you, its simplicity building to powerful impressions as he records...