Gavin Jacobson

What do John Le Carré's classic espionage novels mean in the age of surveillance?

A Jewish refugee in occupied France, Moritz Scheyer was sheltered by nuns.

Ian Buruma’s memoir of his grandparents follows a tradition of haunting elegies by Jewish descendants.

Levi's experience as a partisan—and the execution of two teenage boys—showed him humans' capacity for extreme violence.