A woman who secured the criminal file of her grandmother, a collaborator, offered to share it with a Jewish family that had been betrayed. Then she balked and a new dispute ensued.

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There are good reasons to abandon books we’re not enjoying, but our attenuated attention might lead us to tap out too early.

“The Revolution of Everyday Life,” published in 1967, was his cri de coeur against mindless work, materialism and authority.