David Herman

Looking back at Play for Today

The 1970s BBC drama showcase launched many careers. David Herman looks back.

Review: Encounters and Destinies

Death looms large in this collection of essays

Review: Inside Story - A Novel

Really part novel, part memoir, it is not difficult to decide which part is better. The novel is too long, largely dull and should have been better edited

Poetic voice of ‘austere beauty’ wins Nobel

Louise Glück has been publishing poetry for more than 60 years

Carl Reiner

Key figure in mad, mad, mad world of post-war American-Jewish humour

Book review: Young Heroes of the Soviet Union

This terrific, gripping book is, first, the story of sons haunted by their fathers and the terrible times they all lived through

Book Review: Three

This is a dark thriller, which picks up pace as it goes along, says David Herman

Book review: The Slaughterman’s Daughter

Iczkovits is a born storyteller and has done his research for this historical novel

Book review: The Tunnel

A B Yehoshua's most recent novels are about characters approaching old age. His latest deals with the onset of dementia.

George Steiner

Zara Steiner

Our fiction reviewer picks his books to get you through isolation

David Herman lists the Jewish books you probably always meant to get round to