The 2003 movie “Anne B. Real,” based on “The Diary of Anne Frank” but set in East Harlem, is “the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration” in the writings of the girl ...
Sometimes, early in the experience of reading a book, I will get a sensation that I may be in the presence of a classic. It’s tough to say what triggers this sensation. I remember experiencing it ...
To take on a subject that has been extensively written about requires a degree of both daring and ambition in an author. When I started to read The Many Lives of Anne Frank by Ruth Franklin, I thought ...
She described herself as a “little bundle of contradictions,” a willful, lively teenager who clashed with her mother, worried about her changing body, and dreamed of a better future. And in the ...
AMSTERDAM — The Anne Frank House Museum launched a graphic novel version of the teenage Jewish diarist's biography today, hoping to bring her story and death in a Nazi concentration camp to a wider ...
Her diary overflows with her devotion to books and movies. But after rereading the entries, a critic was struck by how often ...
Hannah Taylor Gordon takes the title role in this adaptation of Austrian journalist Melissa Muller's 1998 Anne Frank biography. Unlike the 1959 film "The Diary of Anne Frank," this TV-drama follows ...
Ms. Franklin is the author of the forthcoming “The Many Lives of Anne Frank.” “Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. … Families are torn apart; men, women and children are ...