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In a different voice
On "Fast Car" and cultural appropriation.
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Ruth Franklin
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August 2023
Time passing
On letting work happen according to its own schedule.
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Ruth Franklin
3
July 2023
Finished! (For now)
On "living in the unknown" while writing a book.
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Ruth Franklin
16
June 2023
How to prevent a Holocaust
On "The U.S. and the Holocaust," Tom Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt," and living with—and without—history.
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Ruth Franklin
4
May 2023
Who tells your story?
On biography and cultural appropriation.
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Ruth Franklin
9
April 2023
Join me on Notes
A new place to connect
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Ruth Franklin
Otto Frank: censor or preserver?
The way Anne's father edited her diary is one of the least-understood aspects of her life.
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Ruth Franklin
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March 2023
January 2023
"The chronicler of our adventures"
What Etty Hillesum's diary can—and cannot—tell us about Anne Frank.
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Ruth Franklin
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Happy new year!
Some highlights from last year and a look at what's coming next.
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Ruth Franklin
4
December 2022
Hannah Pick-Goslar, 1929-2022
She was one of Anne Frank's first friends, and one of the last people to see her alive.
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Ruth Franklin
3
October 2022
On biography and ghosts
Did I sense a spirit presence in an old Provençal house? Or was it just my own unquiet mind?
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Ruth Franklin
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