David Herman

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

Review: The Death of Eli Gold

Not enough life on a death bed

Review: Great House

Nicole Krauss enhances her reputation with an intense novel that stands comfortably alongside 'by Nicole KraussThe History of Love'

Review: Rosie Hogarth

Working-class, 1950s London was not as Rosie as it seemed

Saul Bellow: Letters

Our own correspondent

Today's cultural icon: the self-hating Jew