Members of the Scribe

How I came to read The Hound of the Baskervilles when I was only 8   My fascination with detectives started very ...

My paternal grandparents lived across from a canal in Long Beach on Long Island. We went to their house every ...

When I was researching my last novel, my friend Michael Rohatyn found a book at the Strand he thought I might ...

When I was twenty, I met a charming elderly man on a train in Greece who told me I looked ...

I recently attended my friend’s father’s memorial. It was held at the Faculty House of Columbia University in a perfectly ...

“The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence ...

“It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, ...

Gluckel of Hameln was an intrepid businesswoman, a mother of twelve children, a passionate wife, and a memoirist. She died ...

“Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.” -Alice Stone Blackwell   The Internet is a tricky beast. ...

“I’ve dictated a sharp article against the Jews,” Joseph Goebbels boasted in a journal entry in 1933. “At its mere ...

Kristallnacht, the first incident of state-sponsored mass violence against the Jews of Nazi Germany, marks a turning point in history. Hitler ...

Before I’m labeled a raging feminist for mentioning that gunmen have been men, I’m telling you I love men but ...