Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, by Robert Jay Lifton by Mary Ellmann THE PREMISE of this book, that extraordinary historic events must have extraordinary psychic effects, seems at once plausible and MARY…
Children of Crisis, by Robert Coles by Mary Ellmann Some of these "children" are little, the rest look grown-up. The "crisis" in which they are involved is the civil-rights…
The Dutiful Simone de Beauvoir by Mary Ellmann Simone de Beauvoir is distinguished by her consistency; on everything she writes, her identity is stamped indelibly.
Academic Women by Mary Ellmann Since their political equality was secured by the suffragettes, American women have toyed with the idea, the possibility in nature,…
I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings and Poems from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, 1942-44 by Mary Ellmann Almost all the pictures reproduced here with such painstaking care were done in 1943. Almost all the children who drew…
The Dering Case: A Surgeon at Auschwitz by Mary Ellmann From April 13 until May 6 of this year, the London newspapers reported what must be the strangest libel case…
