Arts & Letters Daily (06 Feb 2012)

“Disturbing keepsakes of the most inhumane figures in history.” Read this first listed article, “At home with mass murderers.”

Arts & Letters Daily (06 Feb 2012)

Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate 2/6/12 12:00 AMEST

At home with mass murderers. The private photo albums of Himmler and Streicher are simultaneously bizarre and disconcertingly normal… more

In the 1920s, a dealer selling forged Van Goghs dazzled the German art scene. Was this an early symptom of Weimar’s impending collapse?… more

Demagogic politicians, uncaring business titans, cunning union leaders, persistent unemployment: What would Dickens, poet of poverty, make of our own hard times?… more

(Via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate.)