She was previously a Marshall Scholar in the UK, where she covered British politics for The Atlantic.
Linda Kinstler is a writer and Ph.D candidate in the Rhetoric Department at U.C.
It asks how the stories we tell about ourselves, our families and our nations are passed down, how we alter them, and what they demand of us. Probing and profound, Come to this Court and Cryis about the nature of memory and justice when revisionism, ultra-nationalism and denialism make it feel like history is slipping out from under our feet. In this major non-fiction debut, Linda Kinstler investigates both her family story and the archives of ten nations to examine what it takes to prove history in our uncertain century. They put on the line hard-won facts about the Holocaust at the precise moment that the last living survivors – the last legal witnesses – were dying. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. This event is free with first come, first served seating.Ī few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. Please see in-store for mask requirements.