David Herman

Jewish Nonagenarians review: ‘triumph over adversity’

The extraordinary lives of these ordinary people are utterly fascinating

The Pendragon Legend, review: Upper-class chomps and femmes fatales pitched into dark country-house thriller

I was bowled over by this rediscovered work of master novelist Antal Szerb

The Jewish war novelist who told the stories of soldiers, not officers

The republishing of Alexander Baron’s books is a reminder of just how outstanding his fiction is

Do opportunities knock twice in life? Two men who might just know

In which I admire a literary critic and psychoanalyst’s work

‘Kafka was deeply interested in many aspects of his Jewishness, including the then new Zionist movement’

A hundred years after his death, a new exhibition looks at the man behind the legend, bringing us closer to the literary icon than ever before

Book review: Reassessing Kafka 100 years on

Literary sorcerer focused on the instability of life

Our writer pays tribute to Paul Auster who died this week

Knife by Salman Rushdie, review: What about the other victims of the new fundamentalism?

This book is a deeply moving account of a devastating attack and its consequences, but it is also guilty of sins of omission

My father risked his life making fun of Hitler

The defiance of a Jewish artist and poet in hiding in wartime Holland is explored in a deeply moving new exhibition in the German capital

How Jewish refugees changed British childhood

This is an extraordinary collection of essays about some extraordinary emigré artists and writers

These books about hate are already out of date

David Herman finds much of interest in two timely essay collections about antisemitism — but why is there so little emphasis on Iran or immigration?

What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson review: How smart word play can conceal an inner emptiness

David Herman relishes the comic energy of Jacobson’s new novel