If there is any man for whom the brute honesty of popular criticism ought to be waived, it is Elie Wiesel. Holocaust survivor, unstinting witness to Nazi brutality, memoirist, novelist, proud advocate ...

"A Mad Desire to Dance" is the novel Elie Wiesel was born -- or more accurately, survived -- to write. It is in many ways a fictional counterpoint to "Night," his brilliant yet horrific memoir of the ...

"A Mad Desire to Dance," the author explains, is a response to his 1964 novel, "The Town Beyond the Wall," in which Michael, a Holocaust survivor, returns to the town in which he was born, is captured ...

Madness is what I’ll talk to you about — madness burdened with memories and with eyes like everyone else’s, though in my story the eyes are like those of a smiling child trembling with fear. You’ll ...