David Herman

David Herman is the JC’s chief fiction reviewer

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Books

Obituary: Tobias Hill

British poet and novelist inspired by London’s immigrant life

2 min read

The Book of Paradise review: Moonlit nights, pious Jews and demons

1 min read

The House of Love and Prayer and Other Stories review - Dark tales of Orthodox life with a feminist twist

2 min read

Philosopher and historian of ideas, Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909 - 1997, standing) chairing a 'musical discussion' at the Bath International Music Festival, 4th June 1959. On the panel are (left to right) violinist, Yehudi Menuhin (1916 - 1999), composer and writer, Nicolas Nabokov (1903 - 1978), Berlin, and music critic and BBC Controller of Music, William Glock (1908 - 2000). The event was organised by Menuhin in his first year as the festival's director. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Isaiah Berlin: A Life review - A fine account intellectual's Jewishness and Englishness

1 min read

The Cameraman review: Suspense in short supply in evocation of the Thirties

The English Passengers novelist returns with a disappointingly flat story about a cinematographer on a tour of fascist Europe

1 min read

June 15, 2023 16:29

The Cameraman review: Suspense in short supply in evocation of the Thirties

The very Jewish legacy of the non-Jewish Martin Amis

Unlike his father, the novelist had an abiding interest in the Holocaust and the great modern Jewish-American writers

2 min read

May 24, 2023 15:14

The very Jewish legacy of the non-Jewish Martin Amis

Book review: August Blue - A musical mystery stuck in a minor key

Deborah Levy's new novel about a gifted pianist is a slow burner but takes off in the final 200 pages

1 min read

May 12, 2023 12:58

Book review: August Blue - A musical mystery stuck in a minor key

Clive Sinclair: The gunslinger armed with a pen

A critic's fond memories of a writer with a love of Westerns

4 min read

April 28, 2023 12:09

Clive Sinclair: The gunslinger armed with a pen

Ukraine re-discovers its Jewish writers

How persecuted voices from the past are inspiring a new generation

5 min read

March 23, 2023 13:50

The next generation of Holocaust memoir is equally as powerful

The children of survivors are well placed to offer an attempt at answers, along with detailed research and recollections

5 min read

March 10, 2023 15:40

The next generation of Holocaust memoir is equally as powerful

Why Saul Bellow was the best US Jewish writer of his generation

Penguin is reprinting some of his best-known works in new editions

4 min read

February 23, 2023 13:46

Why Saul Bellow was the best US Jewish writer of his generation

Arabesques Book review: Twisting time and place and politics

Anton Shammas' breakthrough novel cleverly interweaves the imagined and the remembered

2 min read

February 2, 2023 16:42

Arabesques Book review: Twisting time and place and politics

Obituary: Edith Pearlman

Leading Jewish-American writer whose stories describe the humanity of the lonely

4 min read

February 2, 2023 12:17

Who Is Mr. Poliakoff? Book review: A Jewish answer to a Le Carré thriller

Short novel packed full of history, from the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union to secret agents in Israel, is full of twists and turns

1 min read

January 12, 2023 17:59

Who Is Mr. Poliakoff? Book review: A Jewish answer to a Le Carré thriller

‘Deep feelings and a wild imagination’ - a tribute to the short-story queen Grace Paley

To mark the centenary of her birth, a celebration of a writer whose work focused on the roles of men and women

5 min read

November 17, 2022 15:24

‘Deep feelings and a wild imagination’ - a tribute to the short-story queen Grace Paley

Ignore the naysayers, we’re living in a golden age of Jewish writing

Modern diaspora fiction is going through a period of growth and Israeli fiction is booming

3 min read

October 20, 2022 13:29

Ignore the naysayers, we’re living in a golden age of Jewish writing

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David Herman

Latest from David Herman

Obituary: Tobias Hill

The Book of Paradise review: Moonlit nights, pious Jews and demons

The House of Love and Prayer and Other Stories review - Dark tales of Orthodox life with a feminist twist

Isaiah Berlin: A Life review - A fine account intellectual's Jewishness and Englishness

More from David Herman

The Cameraman review: Suspense in short supply in evocation of the Thirties

The very Jewish legacy of the non-Jewish Martin Amis

Book review: August Blue - A musical mystery stuck in a minor key

Clive Sinclair: The gunslinger armed with a pen

Ukraine re-discovers its Jewish writers

The next generation of Holocaust memoir is equally as powerful

Why Saul Bellow was the best US Jewish writer of his generation

Arabesques Book review: Twisting time and place and politics

Obituary: Edith Pearlman

Who Is Mr. Poliakoff? Book review: A Jewish answer to a Le Carré thriller

‘Deep feelings and a wild imagination’ - a tribute to the short-story queen Grace Paley

Ignore the naysayers, we’re living in a golden age of Jewish writing