Tribute or insult? A German train has been named for Anne Frank
Deutsche Bahn (DB), the German rail operator, has decided to name twenty-five new high-speed trains after historic figures. They called on the public for suggestions, with more than 19,000 proposals put forward.… Read more »
Italian judge metes out justice with feminist reading list
In Rome, a thirty-five-year-old man who was convicted of paying an underage girl for sex has been ordered to buy thirty feminist books… for the girl to read. Rachael Pells reports… Read more »
Virginia’s “Beloved bill” would let parents block sexually explicit literature in the classroom
In 2013, the Washington Post’s T. Rees Shapiro profiled Laura Murphy, a Fairfax County, Virginia parent, whose son, Blake Murphy, was assigned Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved for his… Read more »
“Long live Anne Frank, long live the public domain”
In November we wrote about the controversy regarding Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, which, while indisputably protected by copyright in the United States until at least 2047, might… Read more »
Who wrote Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl?
In the United States, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl will go into the public domain in 2047, ninety-five years after it was first published in 1952. In… Read more »
Anne Frank books vandalized in Tokyo
Japan has been hit with an ugly string of vandalism recently, with hundreds of copies of Anne Frank books defaced in Tokyo libraries. Martin Fackler writes for the New York… Read more »
Leigh Stein: “My greatest ambition was to ‘Be Anne Frank.'”
Anne Frank is alive and well. That’s the premise in Shalom Auslander’s new novel Hope: A Tragedy, where Frank is old, uncouth, and typing away in the attic of a farmhouse. Frank… Read more »