Ron Rosenbaum

Ron Rosenbaum is the author of The Shakespeare Wars, among other books. LARB published the afterword to his new edition of Explaining Hitler last year.

Against Normalization: The Lesson of the “Munich Post”

Ron Rosenbaum on what the media can learn from the prescient "Munich Post."...

RON ROSENBAUM

POLITICS

HISTORY

The End of Us: E.L. Doctorow’s Last Warning

Let's talk about how the whole scope of E.L. Doctorow's work has earned him the right to a hearing for his apocalyptic, Cassandra-like warning....

RON ROSENBAUM

FICTION

Hitler, Continued: Afterword from the Updated Edition of “Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil”

Thinking about Hitler’s suicide now, in the light of 9/11 and the subsequent exaltations of suicide bombing on messianic, theological grounds, does in fact offer a radical new way of characterizing his acts....

RON ROSENBAUM