New book by Ruth Franklin explores how Anne Frank, the German Jewish teenager killed in the Holocaust, became a cultural icon ...

Ruth Franklin's 'The Many Lives of Anne Frank' complements the diarist's story and refuses to police its interpretation by ...

In the latest entry to Yale's 'Jewish Lives' series, Franklin explores the history and legacy of the most famous witness to ...

Eighty years after her final entry, the story of Frank’s diary is told in a new light by the author Ruth Franklin and by the Anne Frank House and Center for Jewish History’s “Anne Frank: The ...

She was here. Now I am. “There is this drive in us to visit pilgrimage sites,” Ruth Franklin, author of the new biography The Many Lives of Anne Frank, told me. People began showing up at the ...

In “The Many Lives of Anne Frank,” Ruth Franklin explores the idea that the posthumous fame attached to Anne Frank has all but eclipsed the fact of her reality. As Cynthia Ozick, Dara Horn and ...

Regular readers of this Notebook know that I am enamored of the outdated conceptual duo of nature and culture, which are not quite the opposite terms that the originators of that binary once thought.