“The fire was a humbling reminder of feral power and the absolute certainty that natural forces will always triumph in the end ... The silence in the title of his book, it turns out, is ...

(Jeenah Moon/Getty Images) An earlier version of this review misstated the title of Ronan Farrow's book as “Catch and ... Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence,” his new biography ...

There is no cure. When I drove home, I realized that I will never know pure silence again. When we walk into an empty church, we might hear inside the holy silence, the tap-tapping of our shoes.

The author of this book was for more than two decades an official in the upper reaches of the German civil service. In his book there is much interesting, and even valuable, information on the demise ...