Is your Spotify Wrapped a bluff? While digital algorithms track our listening, an analog "book stack" offers a deeper look at ...

In 24 days during the fall of 1946, a German novelist known as Hans Fallada produced a rare, and now especially timely, literary touchstone: a humane depiction of muted resistance. Every Man Dies ...

LEONARD COHEN sings a song called The Partisan. It tells the story of an anti-fascist fighter in the heart of the war against Nazism. Beautifully rendered by Cohen on his 1969 album Songs From a Room, ...

Leonard Cohen sings a song called “The Partisan”. It tells the story of an antifascist fighter in the heart of the war against Nazism. Beautifully rendered by Cohen on his 1969 album Songs From a Room ...

From Hilde, with Love is an understated and incredibly moving account of a group of resistance fighters in Berlin during World War Two. It focuses on the trial of Hilde, one member of a small group of ...

Abraham Verghese (Dr.) is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor in the Department of Medicine, Stanford University, the U.S. In addition to patient care and teaching, he leads ...

Sophie Scholl wrote one word on the back of the indictment that condemned her to death: “freedom.” The story of this university student who defended her ideas against Adolf Hitler’s regime is one of ...

This is the first book in a series featuring Easy Rawlins, an African-American private detective working in mid-century Los Angeles. Rawlins and his fearsome sidekick, Mouse, navigate America’s ...

Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, ...

Hans Fallada, real name Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen, was a German writer who became famous for his realistic novels of the early 20th century. Born in 1893 in Greifswald, Germany, Fallada experienced ...

Elise and Otto Hampel (d. 1943), German couple who protested against Hitler and the Nazis (Wikimedia Commons) The book Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada, weighs heavily on my heart long after I ...