Julia M. Klein
The Boston Globe
Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Who betrayed Anne Frank? A new book tracks history’s most famous cold case
Was it the thieving warehouse manager? A suspicious neighbor? A notorious informant? The answer, according to Rosemary Sullivan’s intermittently gripping “The Betrayal of Anne Frank,” is none of the above. → Read More
Brave women fighting Nazis in ‘The Light of Days’
The Polish Jewish heroines chronicled by Judy Batalion threw off gender norms and ghetto constraints to resist Nazism, and sometimes survived to tell their stories. → Read More
A powerful, poetic life: The complexities of Adrienne Rich
Rich attained both popular acceptance and critical acclaim over a more than six-decade-long career. → Read More
Is it time to start taking beauty pageants seriously?
In "Here She Is," Hilary Levey Friedman offers a nuanced history of the beauty pageant. → Read More
My psychiatrist committed suicide. Here’s what I wish I’d said.
If you or anyone you know is in the grips of depression, tell them they are at the mercy of faulty thinking, and there is help available. → Read More
Harvard historian Bernard Bailyn takes a long look back in ‘Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades’
To Bailyn, Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard, history involves storytelling, and historians, like novelists, should aim to depict a coherent world. But the historian, of course, must obey constraints that the writer of fiction naturally ignores. → Read More
Review: ‘Broken Glass’ by Alex Beam chronicles the drama surrounding Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House
Alex Beam explores the contentious relationship between Mies van der Rohe and Edith Farnsworth that led to the creation of the famed Farnsworth House. → Read More
In ‘The Watergate Girl,’ a view of a national scandal through a feminine lens
Jill Wine-Banks, currently known for her appearances on MSNBC, has penned what may well be the last Watergate memoir. → Read More
Harvey Weinstein’s rape and sexual assault trial begins
Harvey Weinstein's criminal sex crimes trial began in New York City on January 6. → Read More
Adam Kay’s probing memoir on life in the trenches of medicine is so funny, it hurts
Julia M. Klein reviews « This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident. » → Read More
Gladwell’s ‘Talking to Strangers’ a far-flung survey of the fairly obvious
Is New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell a master of the obvious or the king of the counterintuitive? It’s a toss-up in his latest book. → Read More
Bari Weiss Has Answers, But She’s Not Asking The Right Questions
The big question about Bari Weiss’s “How to Fight Anti-Semitism” is: Who is it for? → Read More
How They Brought Down Harvey Weinstein And Jump-Started #MeToo
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement By Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey Penguin Press, $28, 310 pages In “She Said,” New York Times investigative reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey raise the thorny question of whether the #MeToo movement has gone too far — or not far enough. Then they drop it. “It was not clear how the country would ever agree on… → Read More
The Anthropologists Who Undid Sex, Race, and Gender
In Gods of the Upper Air, a biographer reveals how anthropologist Franz Boas and his students helped transform how human differences and similarities are perceived. → Read More
The great books are going to pile up like leaves
Globe critics offer promising picks from the fall shelves in fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and genre fiction. → Read More
George Gershwin’s Mercilessly Short Summertime
It’s hard to read the story of George Gershwin without feeling a sense of loss. → Read More
'When I Was White’: Sarah Valentine’s memoir considers the meaning of racial identity
Sarah Valentine’s intriguing memoir, "When I Was White," considers the meaning of racial identity. → Read More
In A Forged Van Gogh, A Real Story Of Lives Uprooted By Nazis
In the Full Light of the Sun By Clare Clark Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 424 pages, $27 “Fiction, unlike the truth, cannot defy belief,” Clare Clark writes in an author’s note appended to her latest novel. That hardly unassailable dictum defines her buffet approach to mining history. “In the Full Light of the Sun” is loosely based on a case of artistic forgery in Weimar Germany involving a group… → Read More
A new book goes inside Boko Haram’s abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls
CNN’s Isha Sesay offers a chilling, intimate account of captivity — and a warning → Read More
The Catherine Chung equation: math + identity = elegant novel
Can a mathematician also be an accomplished storyteller? The answer is an emphatic yes. “The Tenth Muse” by Catherine Chung is an elegant and absorbing fiction. → Read More