Gotz Aly’s Hitler’s Beneficiaries doesn’t look like an explosive book. Written in a dry, unsensational style, it studies that driest and least sensational of subjects: public finance.
What maniac at the Walt Disney Corporation could have had the idea of attempting to transform Victor Hugo’s grim Gothic masterpiece, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, into an animated cartoon?
Theodore Dalrymple is the pseudonym of Anthony Daniels, a British prison psychiatrist well known I think to NRO readers for his dark, intimate views of the bottom of British society.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel is one of the major memoirs of the age: a stunning story of a courageous human spirit emancipating herself from ignorance and oppression.