“A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.”

“I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.”

  What do Sergei Rachmaninoff, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Arthur Rubinstein, Sergei Prokofiev, Marlene Dietrich, Igor Stravinsky, and Tallulah Bankhead have in common? Dagmar Godowsky. Once a famous beauty, by the late 1950s Dagmar Godowsk…

Newly revealed letters from Heidegger confirm his Nazism—not that there was any doubt.Martin Heidegger never apologized for his support of the Nazis. He joined the party in 1933 and remained a member until the bitter end, in 1945. First, he spoke out…