David Herman

Books about The Book

The compelling phenomenon that was Chaim Potok is recognised with a Penguin Modern Classics double release

A question of German identity

Review: America America

Large, tasty slice of Stateside intrigue

Review: Now You See Him

It's Updike-land, but thrills are cheap

Review: Journey Into The Past

Passionate prose from a classic writer

Review: Rosenfeld’s Lives

Greater than Bellow?

Review: The Quickening Maze

Locked in a world of words

Review: Shadow And Light

Mayhem and murder at the movies

How the modern liberal came to be defined

We meet a star New Yorker columnist, whose new book hails the achievements of Darwin and Lincoln

Review: The Post Office Girl

One more milestone in Zweig’s revival

Review: The Informers

Thanks, Dad, for the rotten book review

Affecting, affected