By Isa Goldberg October 9, 2025: The 2025 republication of Crooked Cross, Sally Carson's1934 novel predicting the rise of Nazism, is a literary event of some significance, especially in our time when essential civil liberties are so aggressively challenged. Persephone Books, the British publisher of out-of-print books by early twentieth century women writers, rediscovered the work. In its day, it had been scrutiniz…