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Norman Ohler, the author of the New York Times bestseller "Blitzed," returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, in "Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age." (Mariner Books)

Peter Steiner is the author of the critically acclaimed Louis Morgon series of crime novels. He is also a cartoonist for The New Yorker and is the creator of one of the most famous cartoons of the technological age which prompted the adage, ‘On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.’His new Willi Geismeier novel is "The Inconvenient German."

Dr. Al Miller was forced to leave Germany as a Jewish teenager in the 1930s as the Nazis rose to power. When he returned years later, it was as a member of a special American military intelligence unit known as “The Ritchie Boys.” Miller spoke with WAMC about his experience interrogating Nazi prisoners for the United States. Miller is making a speaking appearance for the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires tonight.

Historian David Nasaw’s new book, "The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War," turns his attention to the gripping yet until…

Alice Hoffman’s latest book is a bittersweet parable about the costs of survival and the behaviors that define humanity. “The World That We Knew” is set…

In Peter Steiner's novel "The Good Cop" it's 1920 in Munich. Detective Willi Geismeier has a problem: how do you uphold the law when the law goes bad? The…

It is 18 months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and some 12,000 members of America’s beleaguered Continental Army stagger into a…

This year, The Tanglewood Music Center has three Fellows from the Mendelssohn Academy in Leipzig, Germany as an exchange that’s part of the BSO’s alliance…

When Sara Zaske moved from Oregon to Berlin with her husband and toddler, she knew the transition would be challenging, especially when she became…

Innovative, heartbreaking, and wickedly funny, Hedwig And The Angry Inch is the American musical by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask is a…