Book Week24Yascha Mounk is showing the way out of today’s culture warsThe American writer is pushing back against the ‘woke’ identity theories that fuel antisemitismBy David Rose3 min read
FervourFervour by Toby Lloyd, review: An infuriatingly flawed debut novelThe (particularly Jewish) question at the heart of all this is how much we should revisit the past, says Felix PopeBy Felix Pope1 min read
Frederic Raphael‘Why still write? What is there better to do?’Oscar-winner Frederic Raphael is still writing at 92. He tells Mark Glanville how how work has helped him survive tragediesBy Mark Glanville5 min read
Glorious PeopleGlorious People by Sasha Salzmann, review: An in-depth study of friendship and family relations across two generationsAmanda Hopkinson is impressed by a novel about dislocation across the generationsBy Amanda Hopkinson2 min read
Books These books about hate are already out of dateDavid Herman finds much of interest in two timely essay collections about antisemitism — but why is there so little emphasis on Iran or immigration?By David Herman4 min read
What Will Survive of UsWhat Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson review: How smart word play can conceal an inner emptinessDavid Herman relishes the comic energy of Jacobson’s new novelBy David Herman2 min read
Glatstein ChroniclesThe Glatstein Chronicles by Jacob Glatstein review: A portrait of a Jewish world in its twilight yearsOne of the foremost 20th century Yiddish poets, Glatstein emigrated from Lublin to New York in 1914By Mark Glanville1 min read
Engineers of Human SoulsClumsy blast through literary historyAlun David is underwhelmed by a book about literary thinkersBy Alun David 1 min read
Safe Haven: Nazi collaboratorsHow Britain let butchers of the Holocaust to escape scot-freeColin Shindler is fascinated by a study into a failure of justiceBy Colin Shindler2 min read
Barbara WintonNicholas Winton’s daughter speaks outJennifer Lipman welcomes an intriguing account of the Jewish stockbroker’s extraordinary lifeBy Jennifer Lipman2 min read
Jewish Book WeekRead all about it: Jewish Book Week 2024 has a new nameNow billed the Jewish Literary Foundation’s Book Week, or Bookweek24, it has an eclectic line-up including Booker Prize nominee Sarah BernsteinBy Elisa Bray4 min read
By Stephen PollardMilton Friedman – the last conservative?A new biography of the great economist and public intellectual is also a masterly account of post-War US history3 min read
Rob RinderFiction review of the yearOur critics’ favourite novels, from a sweetly satirical rom-com to a study in middle-class complicity in the Third ReichBy Karen Glaser2 min read
Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon review: Getting personal with a literary giantDavid Herman applauds a memoir that examines the life of Amos OzBy David Herman2 min read
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store book review: Communities come together in PennsylvaniaJennifer Lipman enjoys a tale of neighbourly harmony in 1930s AmericaBy Jennifer Lipman1 min read
Books Growing up middle class in Nazi GermanyAlun David reviews an account of a wartime childhoodBy Alun David 2 min read