On Monday, July 7, Netflix released a first look at the new film “Ruth and Boaz,” a modern-day retelling of the biblical ...

Ruth Franklin's 'The Many Lives of Anne Frank' complements the diarist's story and refuses to police its interpretation by countless admirers.

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 ...

Ruth Franklin. Norton/Liveright, $35 (624p) ISBN 978-0-87140-313-1 . Literary critic Franklin (A Thousand Darknesses) renders a gripping and graceful portrait of the mind, life, and work of ...

An American, Brooklyn Born. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to ...

Ruth Franklin is a contributing editor at The New Republic and is currently a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She is working on a biography of ...