Accidental Friends Accidental Friends
"One does not jail Voltaire." So responded the president of France to calls that Jean-Paul Sartre be arrested for backing an independent Algeria.
Mar 18, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
Willi the Red Willi the Red
"This act of incendiarism is the most monstrous act of terrorism so far carried out," reported a 1933 Berlin newspaper.
Jan 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
Savage Modernism Savage Modernism
A refugee from Nazism and a distinguished New York psychoanalyst, Sandor Rado had thought long and deeply about Hitler's takeover of Germany. Years ago, the writer Otto Friedri...
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby