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Review: A Life in a Poem

There is a spiritual intensity here which pervades both the poetry and the prose of this memoir, says Peter Lawson

By Peter Lawson

2 min read

Review: A Life in a Poem

Review: Ghetto: The History of a Word

Review: Ghetto: The History of a Word

An authoritative survey of how this most malleable of words was understood in different ways over the centuries, says Howard Cooper

By howard cooper

2 min read

Review: Fly Already

Review: Fly Already

Etgar Keret is a master of melancholy, but also of terror, says David Herman

By David Herman

2 min read

Cliveden gets ready to rock again

Cliveden gets ready to rock again

JC literary editor Gerald Jacobs previews a literary festival that has established itself among the best in a short time

By Gerald Jacobs

1 min read

Review: Legacy

This history of the J Lyons company and the family that ran it is a (mostly) gripping read, says Robert Low

2 min read

Review: Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution

This book presents a beautifully clear introduction to Marx’s thought and its Hegelian origins, says Vernon Bogdanor

By Vernon Bogdanor

2 min read

Review: Generation Y: Generation Snowflake?

This book is ideal for anyone who already firmly believes that today’s youth are little more than pathetic, feckless ingrates, says Daniel Sugarman

By Daniel Sugarman

2 min read

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Review: Fabulous Monsters

A work of literary criticism that is full of sailors, little girls, monsters and vampires, says David Herman

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Preaching in the time of the Nazis

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Review: The Exiles

This book about creatives and scholars exiled by the Nazis is an impeccably researched yet eminently readable book, says Daniel Snowman

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Review: The Thirty-Year Genocide

This incisive work transmits to us in these dark days of political turmoil, says Colin Shindler

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Interview: children's author Helen Peters

Helen Peters speaks to Angela Kiverstein about being 'terrified' of writing from the perspective of a child of the Kindertransport

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Review: Those Who Come After

This is an absolute firecracker of a book, says Julia Neuberger

By Rabbi Julia Neuberger

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Review: The Drama of Celebrity

Sharon Marcus’s book is tour de force and the author a total star, says Jonathan Margolis

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Review: Refugee Tales Volume III

A heartfelt and compelling form of protest, a setting down as evidence of the experiences of those whom the media so often vilify and reject, says Rabbi Johnathan Wittenberg

By Johnathan Wittenberg

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Review: Life and Love in Nazi Prague

This book is one more remarkable piece in the unknowable and uncompletable jigsaw of European Jewry in the 1940s, says Jenni Frazer

By Jenni Frazer

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