Benjamin Paloff, Chair of the Department, has just published Worlds Apart: Genre and the Ethics of Representing Camps, Ghettos, and Besieged Cities (Columbia UP) — a groundbreaking study of how survivors of 20th-century atrocities turned to fiction to convey their experiences. Through innovative narrative forms and a blending of fact and fiction, the book challenges conventional approaches to representing collective trauma and historical truth.

This important work invites readers to consider how literary genres shape our understanding of history, memory, and the ethics of storytelling. Worlds Apart is now available through Columbia University Press.