Nazis
The Front Row
“The Zone of Interest” Is an Extreme Form of Holokitsch
Jonathan Glazer’s drama, set among the Nazis who ran Auschwitz, turns the horrors of the Holocaust into scenes from a marriage.
Culture Desk
The Discovery of a Forgotten and Banned Nuremberg Film
“Filmmakers for the Prosecution” tells the story of how two scions of Hollywood contributed crucial evidence and made a documentary that was suppressed by the U.S. Army.
The Theatre
Alex Edelman Gets Political in “Just for Us”
In his solo show at the SoHo Playhouse, the comedian delves into a world of neo-Nazi wannabes, to explore his whiteness—and his Jewishness.
Page-Turner
Reckoning with a Nazi Father
I wrote a book about a leading Nazi who tried to flee after the war. His son is still sorting through the damage.
Daily Comment
Camus and the Political Tests of a Pandemic
In this political season of our own, it can be uncanny to encounter Camus’s seven-decade-old account of a dissembling leader, whose advisers cannot bear even to speak aloud the name of the disease that is rampaging through their city.
Page-Turner
The Unexpected Profundity of Curious George
The backstory of the couple who created Curious George—fleeing Paris as the Nazis invaded—casts the dream logic of the stories in a new light.
Culture Desk
The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust
A lot of us who write about music talk about how a song or album saved our lives at one point or another. Eric Vogel understood the idea literally, as a debt he’d spend the rest of his life repaying.
Daily Comment
Revisiting the American Nazi Supporters of “A Night at the Garden”
The Oscar-nominated documentary chronicles the night in February, 1939, when twenty thousand American men, women, and children gathered at Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “Pro-American Rally.”
Read
The New Yorker Recommends: “Villa Air-Bel,” a History of the Safe House That Shielded Artists from the Nazis
The book studies the work of the Emergency Rescue Committee, an organization that sent a high-school teacher to France to facilitate the escape of those who were trapped when the Nazis marched into Paris.
Under Review
A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968
No writer has been more trapped in a year’s granularity than Uwe Johnson, which he chronicled in “Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl.”
Fiction
The Boarder
A Critic at Large
How American Racism Influenced Hitler
Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.
Annals of Technology
Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
How do we fix life online without limiting free speech?
Page-Turner
A New History of the Second World War
Annals of Technology
Call of Duty, Wolfenstein, and the Joy of Killing Virtual Nazis
Video games have always loved an easy villain. But two new additions to the venerable Fascist-stomping genre have given it an unexpected political relevance.
L.A. Postcard
The Nazi Sites of Los Angeles
A walking tour of where the Fascists and Hitlerites gathered in California.
