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The young Jewish women who fought the nazis – and why you’ve never heard of them

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  By Adrian Hennigan, Tlaxcala, 2, February 2021 A powerful new book, ‘The Light of Days,’ reveals the tragic and audacious stories of fearless Polish women in Jewish resistance movements. Author Judy Batalion explains how a chance discovery helped changed her perception of the Holocaust It takes something special to be even more astounding than …

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Mosques: Islamic Architecture in Europe

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Photography by Ahmed Eckhard Krausen With his book Mosques: Islamic Architecture in Europe, published by Dar Al-Arqam Foundation (Warsaw, Poland), in both English and Polish, Ahmed Eckhard Krausen opened and made accessible a chapter of European history that most of us, European Muslims and Europeans of other faiths alike, are completely unaware of. Although Krausen …

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The Little Blue Books That Made French Literature Mainstream

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Invented in Troyes, these travel-sized texts started popping up everywhere. BY EVAN NICOLE BROWN DECEMBER 04, 2018 NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE in the world, during any given morning commute, you will likely see a book. Whether that book is electronic and read from a screen, or a more traditional three-dimensional version in the grasp of a …

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Alphabetical

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I like Michael Rosen’s work for children (I use The Sad Book in my children’s literature course at the university) and I’m always interested in what he has to say about language and lit. So I was excited to read his book, Alphabetical. What a fun, interesting book! You can dip in and out and …

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