Christina Gerhardt is a visiting scholar at Columbia University who is finishing Critique of Ethical Violence: The Trauma of Terrorism, a book about the representations of the Red Army Faction in literature, art and film. Her articles have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The Nation and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Culture
Romancing the Terrorists
The Baader Meinhof Complex glamorizes a Cold War-era German terrorist group without questioning its politics and violence.
Christina Gerhardt