In a discussion of his book The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War, historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist David Nasaw recounts the ordeal of more than a million refugees stranded in a devastated Germany after World War II. Among them were some 250,000 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust whose homes in Europe had vanished.

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Award-winning author, historian, podcast host, and New Yorker staffer Jill Lepore juxtaposes the political and personal in her new essay collection The Deadline. She discusses the essays, which crisscross over what she refers to as the “deadline,” the “river of time that divides the quick from the dead,” enveloping and digesting lockdowns, race commissions, and popular toys, as well as personal losses that riddle her life. 
 

The Library wraps up this summer’s Off the Wall series of rooftop film screenings, featuring cats in non-starring but invariably scene-chewing roles, with 1992’s Batman Returns (PG-13, 126 min.). It’s a darkly intense, Tim Burton-directed sequel that still holds up today in no small part due to an indelible cast of characters – including Michelle Pfeiffer’s Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman.

Amid the United States’ protracted involvement in Vietnam, its military confronted racial justice demands more directly than perhaps any other institution in the country. The University of Kansas’ Beth Bailey looks back on that reckoning in a discussion of her new book, An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era.