David Herman

Review: The Prague Cemetery

Italy's most celebrated literary intellectual conjures up an incendiary mix of fact, fiction and postmodern provocation.

Review: The List

From Mitteleuropa to Finchleystrasse

Review: A Woman In Jerusalem

The family and other explosive concepts

Interview: Peter Owen

The publisher recalls 60 years of independently introducing readers to major authors.

Review: There's No Home

Review: And This Is The Light

Modern novel dressed in old clothes

Review: The Imperfectionists

A brilliant new novel from America fits comfortably into the well-crafted tradition of dramatising the journalistic life.

Review: Childish Loves

Number one Byronic detective agency

Review: Scenes from Village Life

The stuff of nightmares

Review: The Novel in the Viola

Heart-strings played too sentimentally

Interview: Nicole Krauss

We speak to an Orange Prize front-runner about the serious and sensitive business of writing fiction.

Review: Lucky Break

Thespian saga that fails to entertain