Jon McLarenApr 20, 2025
The New York Review of Books
“Whether or not we are responsible for the misdeeds of our ancestors, it’s come to seem certain that we will have to pay for them.” —Francine Prose https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/poisoning-the-family-tree-children-of-radium-dunthorne/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-04-20_Prose-Dunthorne-2
Poisoning the Family Tree | Francine Prose

At the center of Children of Radium is Joe Dunthorne’s search for information about his great-grandfather—a German Jewish scientist who helped developed chemical weapons for the Nazis.

The New York Review of Books
Apr 20, 2025 at 3:45pmWeb