A best-selling novelist and political activist in her native Italy, she was admired for her sensitive depictions of women and their predicaments. Recently rediscovered, her work has lost none of its subversive force.
Tag: World War II (1939-45)
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Tony Vaccaro, 100, Dies; Photographed War From a Soldier’s Perspective
After carrying a camera across battlefields, he became a magazine photographer known for his images of famous subjects like Georgia O’Keeffe and Greta Garbo.
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Broad, Sunlit Uplands
What 1940 can teach us about 2022.
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After 90 Years, a Menorah That Symbolized Defiance Is Rekindled in Germany
A 1931 photograph of a menorah on a windowsill also showed a Nazi flag in the street outside. This Hanukkah the menorah returned to Germany.
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Why Do Stanford, Harvard and NASA Still Honor a Nazi Past?
At a time when this country is reconsidering our darkest corners of history, Nazi scientists are still lauded across the country.