Rinne Groff calls her new play at the Public Theater Compulsion, which is also the name of a 1956 bestseller about the Leopold and Loeb case, by the Chicago writer Meyer Levin (1905–1981). But Levin’s ...

A writer's voice is something readers instinctively respond to but don't pay much attention to unless they also happen to be writers. Voice is what makes Hemingway sound like Hemingway and why, after ...

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 thought ...

In the beginning was the red-checked, cloth-covered diary that Anne Frank received on her 13th birthday in 1942. When the ...