New book by Ruth Franklin explores how Anne Frank, the German Jewish teenager killed in the Holocaust, became a cultural icon ...

Ruth Franklin's 'The Many Lives of Anne Frank' complements the diarist's story and refuses to police its interpretation by ...

The title of Ruth Franklin’s The Many Lives of Anne Frank exudes a tragic and no doubt purposeful irony. A melding of biography, literary exegesis and cultural history, this volume in the Yale ...

Regular readers of this Notebook know that I am enamored of the outdated conceptual duo of nature and culture, which are not quite the opposite terms that the originators of that binary once thought.