Jennifer Lipman

Jennifer Lipman is a freelance journalist living in London, writing about current affairs, politics, culture and society. She tweets @jenlipman

Latest from Jennifer Lipman

Books

The Lobbyist review: A fun yarn of bribery, corruption and bonkfests galore

Lionel Zetter’s novel captures the rapacious spirit of Britain’s political centre

1 min read

The Lobbyist review: A fun yarn of bribery, corruption and bonkfests galore

I Wanted to be Wonderful review: The trials and tribulations of motherhood laid bare

1 min read

Rooms for Vanishing review: ‘bogged down by its ambitious concept’

2 min read

Summer 2025 reading: the hottest books

4 min read

Is your child anxious? Vanessa Feltz’s daughter can help

Saskia Joss on her new book and why we are our children’s security guard

7 min read

June 6, 2025 13:41

Talk to me: Saskia Joss and her new book

Chutzpah review: ‘The strictly Orthodox rebel who had every reason to leave her community, but who chose to stay’

In her new memoir, Yehudis Fletcher writes compellingly about arranged marriage, parental neglect and sexual abuse in Charedi Judaism

2 min read

June 5, 2025 14:14

Noble Fragments by Michael Visontay, review: ‘two stories in one book’

This gripping expedition into an arcane world of book collectors and their eccentric passions papers over an even more intriguing yarn about family history

2 min read

May 9, 2025 13:33

Noble Fragments by Michael Visontay, review: ‘two stories in one book’

Manya Wilkinson: ‘I wanted to write an edgy novel about the shtetl’

This year’s Wingate winner on her tragicomedy Lublin and lost family history

6 min read

March 13, 2025 12:59

Fable-like tragicomedy: Manya Wilkinson and her book

Do the affluent and over-educated have problems?

This novel satirises the non-problems of privileged Americans with great humour and skill

2 min read

February 16, 2025 12:12

Do the affluent and over-educated have problems?

Singer Sisters review: ‘gentle notes on the gritty business of making music’

The music reverberates from the pages of this feminist journalist’s debut novel

1 min read

January 13, 2025 17:44

Singer Sisters review: ‘gentle notes on the gritty business of making music’

Darkenbloom by Eva Menasse review: ‘Utterly gripping and unforgettable days later’

In this compelling mystery and social novel set in 1989 Austria, the author brings home the fact that the scars of the Holocaust lasted for decades

2 min read

December 31, 2024 10:21

Austrian author Eva Menasse who crafts her story like an oil painting (Photo: Carsten Koall / POOL / AFP)

Were the Nazis inherently evil?

Do we have free will, or is it all written in the womb? The neurologist-author of new book looks at the science behind our actions

4 min read

December 12, 2024 12:53

Meet the Holocaust survivor who became a TikTok sensation

Gidon Lev, who has over 500,000 social media followers, spent his early years in a concentration camp but refused to let the experience define him

5 min read

November 13, 2024 11:12

Meet the Holocaust survivor who became a TikTok sensation

By Any Other Name review: ‘Shakespeare’s Marrano sister’

In bestselling Jodi Picoult’s latest book some of the Bard’s most famous works were written by a Jewish woman who observes Friday night and Yom Kippur and sits a version of shiva when her friend dies

2 min read

October 22, 2024 15:01

Shakespearean questions: author Jodi Picoult and her new book

Lore Segal: ‘her subject was her life’

The Pulitzer-nominated novelist and short story writer who has died aged 96 had a ‘uniquely sharp mind’

1 min read

October 16, 2024 11:07

‘I’ve created a Jewish version of Sherlock Holmes’

Aron Goldin’s first book thrusts his intrepid East End protagonist on the trial of a serial killer in the intriguing setting of a 19th-century Constantinople

4 min read

October 8, 2024 16:26

Historical thriller: Aron Goldin and his first book

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Jennifer Lipman

Latest from Jennifer Lipman

The Lobbyist review: A fun yarn of bribery, corruption and bonkfests galore

I Wanted to be Wonderful review: The trials and tribulations of motherhood laid bare

Rooms for Vanishing review: ‘bogged down by its ambitious concept’

Summer 2025 reading: the hottest books

More from Jennifer Lipman

Is your child anxious? Vanessa Feltz’s daughter can help

Chutzpah review: ‘The strictly Orthodox rebel who had every reason to leave her community, but who chose to stay’

Noble Fragments by Michael Visontay, review: ‘two stories in one book’

Manya Wilkinson: ‘I wanted to write an edgy novel about the shtetl’

Do the affluent and over-educated have problems?

Singer Sisters review: ‘gentle notes on the gritty business of making music’

Darkenbloom by Eva Menasse review: ‘Utterly gripping and unforgettable days later’

Were the Nazis inherently evil?

Meet the Holocaust survivor who became a TikTok sensation

By Any Other Name review: ‘Shakespeare’s Marrano sister’

Lore Segal: ‘her subject was her life’

‘I’ve created a Jewish version of Sherlock Holmes’