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HITLER'S LAST HOSTAGESLooted Art and the Soul of the Third ReichBy Mary M. Lane In 2012, German authorities broke into a Munich apartment belonging to a reclusive octogenarian named Cornelius [...]

THE UNWANTED America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between By Michael Dobbs On the morning of Nov. 10, 1938, Hedy Wachenheimer rode her bike from her small village of [...]

WHERE MEMORY LEADSMy LifeBy Saul Friedländer283 pp. Other Press. $24.95. ''People who, like me, lived their childhood under catastrophic circumstances, may have built a 'normal' exterior,'' writes Saul Friedländer, an [...]

GROUP f.64. Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and the Community of Artists Who Revolutionized American Photography By Mary Street Alinder Illustrated. 399 pp. Bloomsbury. $35. On Oct. 15, 1932, [...]

UNFAMILIAR STREETS The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia By Katherine A. Bussard Illustrated. 218 pp. Yale University Press. $65. TOUCHING STRANGERS By Richard Renaldi [...]

JEWS IN GOTHAM New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920--2010 By Jeffrey S. Gurock New York University Press, $45. In 1960, Fortune magazine published an article that trumpeted the [...]

Last month, the artist An-My Lê installed fifty-two photographs in the Coast Guard's brand-new headquarters, in Washington, D.C. For federal construction projects, the General Services Administration allots half a per [...]

SHE LEFT ME THE GUN My Mother's Life Before Me By Emma Brockes Illustrated. 298 pp. The Penguin Press. $26.95. Emma Brockes, a reporter for The Guardian, was the only [...]