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“... of prayer, rather as one feels anxious about sending important letters to large organisations. Anne Frank is the only Jewish saint. I first read the diary of Anne Frank when I was about the same age as she was when she began to write it. She seemed to me perfectly to fit the bill as a possible ...”

“... about Amy is that she is herself a fantasist, and that she imagines herself to be none other than Anne Frank (in the interlocking fashion of the novel, Anne Frank has earlier been extolled by Nathan’s father as the ideal Jewish author). The reader is extraordinarily disconcerted when the narrative returns to the ...”

“... up in the title story of Nathan Englander’s collection What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne Frank. Two Jewish couples drinking and smoking pot one afternoon in Florida call it ‘the Anne Frank game’. If a second Holocaust were to start up, which of their Gentile neighbours would give them a hiding ...”

“... Fifties; nor have I ever met a woman to whom I have been romantically drawn because she resembled Anne Frank, or whom I mentally transformed into Anne Frank and endowed with her status in order to try to clear myself of Jewish charges of self-hatred and anti-semitism.Though some readers may have trouble ...”

“... what they could to resist. It was a version of history embodied by the most famous onderduiker, Anne Frank. As Yael van der Wouden wrote in an essay a few years ago, the Dutch tend to tell a particular version of Frank’s story: she was ‘mostly Dutch and only a little Jewish’; the Germans were ‘bad and ...”

“... hour’ of his time. In a postscript the judge recommends the Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank. Question 1 is: ‘If you had been living in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, would you have written such a story?’ Question 6 is: ‘What set of aesthetic values makes you think that the cheap is more valid than the noble and the slimy is more ...”

“... Franz Kafka had made it to America and there lived on to become a New Jersey schoolmaster? What if Anne Frank had survived and found out about the publication of her diary from a chance reading of Time magazine? What if a man could actually become a breast? What if a decent, shamefaced Jewish boy were to extol the joys of masturbation? And what if ...”

“... The Ghost Writer. In that book, Roth’s writer-hero Nathan Zuckerman met a girl he imagined to be Anne Frank, and extrapolated an agonising fantasy on her predicament: if she let it be known who she was she would effectively be destroying the meaning of her own book, whose resonance and exemplary weight depended on the fact of its author’s death. If ...”

“... Bernard Malamud (though the resemblance doesn’t seem close) and Amy is imagined to be possibly Anne Frank, rescued and resettled in America. Strange identifications echo round Roth’s collected works, and they aid the creation of narrative and biographical ambiguities that serve to protect the freedom of the imagination. In The Facts, an ...”

“... animals being slaughtered to those of the victims of the Holocaust, and of a steer being spared to Anne Frank being spared. They also suggest that there might be an equivalent of Yad Va Shem’s Avenue of Righteousness among the whales: ‘Perhaps whales sing sagas of great acts of sacrifice by whale cows of days gone by.’ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, who ...”

“... generally short, are prose poems by another name. (‘It is even in/prose, I am a real poet,’ as Frank O’Hara put it.) The exception is her collected lectures, Madness, Rack and Honey (2012), which, she has observed, has been far more successful than any of her poetry collections.Ruefle has been the poet laureate of Vermont since 2019. She brings to the ...”

“... even if mainly at cross-purposes. The other kind of class has the pupils reading The Diary of Anne Frank and trying their hands at self-portraits. This is a complete mess. It’s not just that the pupils are no good at the exercise. They are embarrassed and oppressed by it, and Marin doesn’t understand why they are being difficult. He manages to ...”

“... in Hitler’s Germany you could cross the Alps into Switzerland. You could hide in an attic, like Anne Frank did’ – Republican megadonors encouraged him to run against Biden in the Democratic primary and put more than $25 million into his SuperPac. There was a rumour that Donald Trump, in thrall to Camelot glamour, became so enamoured of a ...”

“... through the press. He was instrumental in the publication of a Russian translation of the Diary of Anne Frank, but the volume closer to his heart, The Black Book, a documentary account of Nazi atrocities against the Jewish populations in their path, was published only in 1980 in Jerusalem (an English translation came out in New York in 1981). I know of ...”

“... is barely explained; but her appearance in the novel is clearly supposed to remind the reader of Anne Frank and her account of the war – which, Thorpe intimates, cannot be evaded by any subsequent writer. Frank’s diary is the paradigm of authenticity, a text which speaks only to and for its author. Entries from ...”