Volume 32, Number 5 · March 28, 1985

How to Write About the Holocaust

By Irving Howe

There are writers, a few of them, who stir an immediate personal response. You need only read a few of their pages and you know right off that an unspoken, subterranean kinship will blossom. Usually it's not the writers' opinions or subjects that really grip you, it's the tone of voice, perhaps a lilt of wry sincerity or a murmur of reflectiveness.



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