Frank is alive and well. That’s the premise in Shalom Auslander‘s new novel Hope: A Tragedy, where Frank is old, uncouth, and typing away in the attic of a farmhouse. Frank is “alive” in a more figurative fashion in Nathan Englander‘s short-story...

3 here in Amsterdam was a very nice, very relaxing and YES very chilly day. David and Sarah spent part of the early afternoon bonding at the Anne Frank House while I stayed back at the hotel working. I finished up and met them out in Rembrandt Square...

J. Hoberman: "In the 52 years since Shelley Winters won a supporting actress Oscar for The Diary of Anne Frank, there have been 20 nominated features -- including foreign-language and documentary films -- that treated the Holocaust from the perspective...

Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the February 17th issue include: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, by Nathan Englander. Knopf, 2012. Print length: 224 p. SHORT STORIES. EW's slant: "...meticulously chiseled stories...These...

We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,” the title story of Nathan Englander’s new collection, deliberately alludes to Raymond Carver’s classic tale “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” But while Englander’s narrative borrows Carver’s...

Cedar. If, however, you opted for Agnieszka Holland's "In Darkness" — a harrowing, emotionally exhausting account of Polish Jews hiding from the Nazis in the sewers of Lvov — you allied yourself with history. In the 52 years since Shelley Winters won a...

Do you feel like you've unburdened yourself by writing this? It's interesting. I hated Anne Frank when I started. When I was six or seven years old my parents would show me Dachau newsreels every Holocaust memorial day, and there'd always be this...

"Hope: A Tragedy." Kugel, his wife and son have moved from the city to Stockton, a small town in upstate New York. Things are not going well. A tenant is insisting on more room in the house. His mother, who lives with him, is obsessed with her...

There is always context in life.” The context in Tendler’s life is one of horror and betrayal that lead to a dreadful act of revenge that ensures that even though he “made it through the camps,” even though he walks and breathes, the truth is that...

Urges. The story takes its theme and its title from the famous Raymond Carver story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” and bends them into a modern cautionary tale about love, faith and the nature of the Jewish identity. The ideas that...

She talks to Fresh Air about why she thinks the character is anything but the cliche some have claimed. Nathan Englander: Assimilating Thoughts Into Stories: In What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank , Nathan Englander writes about his own...

The female host is suitably horrified, and the seed is planted. It is soon revealed that she has spent her life fearing a second Holocaust, playing the “Anne Frank game,” first as a young girl and later with her husband to determine “Who Will Hide Me.”

17, 2012, 3:00 pm By JOHN WILLIAMS In the New York Times Book Review, Stacy Schiff reviews “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,” Nathan Englander’s new collection of stories, and says that the author has “pared down his style” from...

Practice your table manners and see if you would be allowed at the dinner table! Learn proper etiquette from the great Emily Post while dining at a High Tea; and take part in games and activities from the early 1900's. Anne Frank -- April 27, 6-9 p.m....

Nevertheless, prominent Jewish figures spanning the centuries have already been posthumously baptized, notably Anne Frank and Maimonides. But the previous incarnations of the baptism scandal did not occur when a Mormon candidate was actively seeking to...

Work on the project is expected to begin sometime within a year. "You learn about things like this mostly so you can keep history from repeating itself," student Sabrina Ashton wrote after an Anne Frank exhibit in Chandler. "I can't believe how one...

And in Englander's story, the narrator and his wife and their two house guests (old friends visiting from Israel) do something very similar after getting stoned together. "She's always plotting our secret hiding place," the narrator tells his guest – a...

By way of thanks to his illustrious precursor, Auslander records the following exchange between Kugel's sister (a would-be mother), and his wife, Bree (a would-be novelist). The former reports that she saw Philip Roth in Brooklyn, to which the latter...

The revelation that Mel unknowingly offers — true love matures by paradox, by simultaneously vanquishing and uplifting the self — passes unregistered. In the title story of Nathan Englander’s charismatic new collection, “What We Talk About When We Talk...