The Pulitzer-nominated novelist and short story writer who has died aged 96 had a ‘uniquely sharp mind’
Even if you don’t fully agree with his views, Holocaust survivor Saul Friedländer’s centrality to Israeli history makes his analysis of the country vital
Sarah Sultoon on how her experience reporting on Hezbollah and Lebanon steered her approach to writing her novel Dirt
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
I talk to the author of a new book about a group of mid-century Jewish writers who hold a mystique to this day
This is a fascinating account of the hacks who reported on the post-WW2 trials
Sobering and incisive commentary on the men who persuaded ordinary Germans to become mass murderers
From Moses’s birth through the eyes of his big sister, to a spider-and-skull festooned tale of maritime mayhem, our pick of the season’s kids’ fiction
He writes sharply about the web of obligation and Judaism, conveniently, provides a clear framework for such a life
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