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The Granddaughter by Bernhard Schlink review – love and loss in Berlin

A widower sets out to understand his wife’s death in this tale of memory, trauma and German reunification, from the author of The Reader

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2024

Female Nazi concentration camp guards: the true horror lies in their similarities to ourselves

Between 1939 and 1945, around 10% of concentration camp guards were women, yet these Aufseherinnen (overseers) as they were known, barely feature in Holocaust history or literature. On the few occasions they do appear, it is most commonly as a masculinised sadist when the reality was much more complex.

The Conversation · Oct 10, 2024

Moral ambiguity and the representation of genocide – is there a limit to what can be depicted?

On January 10 2022, the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus from the school’s curriculum, and ban it. The board cited concerns about nudity and profanity, implicitly raising broader questions about the book’s depiction of violence.

The Conversation · Jun 16, 2022