David Herman

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

Presence: Collected Stories of Arthur Miller

Hot and cold Miller’s tales

Interview: Gabriel Josipovici

Literally critical literary critic

Review: To the End of the Land

Falling short of genius

Review: Witz

Man at his Witz end

Interview: Edmund Dewaa

David Herman meets a renowned potter whose excursion into writing shows that his artistry is more than ceramic

Brilliant Baron is back

A forgotten fiction writer makes a welcome return to the bookshops.

Review: Playing Days

Despair of men going through hoops

Review: World Cup Wishes

Four football friends fall foul of fate

The literary entertainer

Michael Chabon’s two new collections of essays show him to be a perceptive reader as well as a lively, prolific writer