A fascinating record of human persistence in the midst of turmoil.
A journalistic approach to intimate aspects of life in Israel and Palestine.
In this well-articulated, broad-ranging work of graphic journalism, French journalist and podcaster Parent-Rachdi interviews residents of Israel and Palestine facing a diversity of romantic and family situations. An Arab woman dating Jewish men in Tel Aviv weighs the enjoyment of personal freedom against cultural judgment, ultimately marrying a man from her own culture: “I hope that my daughter or my daughter’s daughter will be sexually liberated! I’m not quite there.” A mixed-religion celebrity couple makes a positive public example of their wedding—“We married beneath a chuppah and the ketubah was in Arabic and Hebrew!”—while navigating the administrative aspects of uniting lives: “On paper I’m divorced and [my wife] is single….In Israel, only religious authorities may perform weddings, which implies the spouses are of the same faith.” Parent-Rachidi also considers the challenges of creating a new generation in a conflict-ridden region. A woman in the West Bank acquires sperm from her long-imprisoned husband through covert means to have a child. In Jerusalem, a European Jewish emigrant seeks the right woman with whom to procreate via a co-parenting agency. Both deeply desire to pass on some piece of their heritage, but their options are drastically different. Parent-Rachidi largely lets interviewees speak for themselves, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions within individual profiles. Deloupy’s colorful and detailed illustrations add subtle weight to conversational exchanges and vignettes of urban life. The core text was created before the current Gaza war, but the book includes an epilogue that follows up with interviewees in February 2024.
A fascinating record of human persistence in the midst of turmoil.Pub Date: June 9, 2026
ISBN: 9798875001697
Page Count: 160
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Review Posted Online: March 9, 2026
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 2026
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorkerstaff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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