"Darkness At Noon"

Apr 8th 2024 10:56am EDT

It’s solar eclipse day here in Dallas, and I woke up this morning thinking about Arthur Koester’s 1940 novel Darkness at Noon, whose original German title, Sonnenfinsternis, means “solar eclipse.” The story—about the arrest and interrogations of a man named Nikolai Salmanovich Rubashov—explores the tyranny and perverse logic of the Moscow Show Trials of 1938, […]

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