Louis Begley’s books include Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters and the novels Wartime Lies and most recently Schmidt Steps Back. The essay in the April 5, 2012 issue was delivered in a somewhat different form as the opening address at the Leipzig Book Fair in 2001.
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My Europe
April 5, 2012
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Jews Honored in Kraków
March 8, 2012
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The Day of the Hunter
December 8, 2011
Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends
by Tom Segev, translated from the Hebrew by Ronnie Hope
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It Couldn’t Happen Here
September 22, 2005
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The Custom of the Country
June 23, 2005
The History of Love
by Nicole Krauss
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Ariadne’s Own Story
September 23, 2004
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Lonely in Germany
January 17, 2002
Flights of Love
by Bernhard Schlink,translated from the Germanby John E. Woods
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A Matter of Survival
September 24, 1992
October, Eight O’Clock by Norman Manea, translated by Cornelia Golna, by Anselm Hollo, by Mara Soceanu Vamos, by Max Bleyleben, by Marguerite Dorian, by Elliott B. Urdang