A boycott of Jewish shops in Berlin, 1933. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. As a historian, ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. If you haven’t yet weighed in on Tom Scocca’s Beijing Welcomes ...

As of this writing, Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts has been at or near the top of The New York Times’ best-seller list for more than four months—an imaginative portrait of Berlin and the Nazi ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The story of how the Nazis consolidated power in 1930s Berlin, as seen through the eyes of a ...

I’m right in the middle of Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, and it’s every bit as good a read as his Devil in the White City, though for ...

Today it’s hard to escape history in the making — anyone with a smartphone can follow a revolution. Though instant access presents its own dilemmas, surely it’s better than what happened in Nazi ...

Author of nonfiction best-sellers such as “The Devil in the White City” and “Isaac's Storm,” Seattle writer Erik Larson dreads what he refers to as “the dark country of no ideas.” “The idea hunt is a ...

Next month audiences will get to see Tom Hanks in the better of his two films this year as Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close will likely blow Larry Crowne out of the water, but another adaptation ...

"In the Garden of Beasts" at times seems derivative of a 1940 memoir, "Through Embassy Eyes," by Martha Dodd, one of the main characters of his tale. Much of material is the same, but we can forgive ...

Tom Hanks has made plans to adapt In the Garden of Beasts. He will work with work with producing partner Gary Goetzman on the adaptation of Erik Larson's non-fiction novel, according to The Hollywood ...