In the 1930s, a German-Jewish chemist resettled his family in neutral Turkey. But his work on radioactive materials and ...

The novelist and poet interrogates his great-grandfather’s life story, taking in Nazi Germany, 1930s Turkey and the world of ...

In “Children of Radium,” Joe Dunthorne explores the absurdity of family histories and his own clan’s complicated past.

In the opening pages of Children of Radium, Joe Dunthorne describes the ring his mother gave him on his wedding day, an “oval ...

Joe Dunthorne, author of 'Submarine,' doggedly researched his Jewish ancestor's scientific work benefiting the Nazis. His ...

Joe Dunthorne’s discursive fourth-generation memoir, “Children of Radium,” unpacks that move ... the manufacture of a radioactive toothpaste that became the choice of the German army.

At its heart lies his investigation into the veracity of a memoir written by his great-grandfather Siegfried who, according to family legend, was the inventor of radioactive toothpaste ...