Mass book

I saw the mass book burnings by the Nazis in 1933.

This dynamic was on display on a July afternoon in Berlin, when hundreds of people, many belonging to far-left parties and pacifist groups, assembled on Bebelplatz, a square in the center of Berlin that was the site of one of the first mass book burnings of the Nazi era.

I suspect that after the events of January 6th and the ongoing crisis of gun violence, vaccine and mask refusal, mass book banning and the intensity of the right's descent into delusional, anti-democratic authoritarianism, they aren't the only ones who feel that way.

The writer and the actress had been friends for years, striking up a friendship after Portman — then a student at Harvard University — approached Foer after a Cambridge, Mass., book reading for his 2002 novel “Everything Is Illuminated.”

The terrace overlooks Bebelplatz, the square where the Nazis held their mass book burning in 1933.