As the New Yorker’s correspondent in Paris, Janet Flanner initially focused on society gossip. The specter of war was in the ...

In “The Typewriter and the Guillotine,” Mark Braude takes on the intersection of Janet Flanner’s career and a lurid murder case.

One half of “The Typewriter and the Guillotine” is compelling, and it’s probably not the half you’d think. “The Typewriter” part of Mark Braude’s account of midcentury Paris is the better part (and it ...

The discovery of a Nazi-era guillotine in a Bavarian museum warehouse has triggered a national debate about whether it should be put on display. The guillotine was used to kill at least 1,000 ...