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Review: The Age of Football

This book mixes searing detail with laconic wit, says David Winner

By David Winner

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Review: The Age of Football

Review: Ducks, Newburyport

Review: Ducks, Newburyport

Stoddard Martin hails a major new work as possibly today’s ‘Great American Novel’

By Stoddard Martin

2 min read

Getting in the right mood for the High Holy Days

Getting in the right mood for the High Holy Days

Big Questions, Brief Intentions, Edited by Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum,London School of Jewish Studies

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

Review: A Life in a Poem

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

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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

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

By David Herman

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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

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Review: Legacy

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

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Review: Legacy

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

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Review: Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution

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

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Review: Generation Y: Generation Snowflake?

Review: Fabulous Monsters

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

By David Herman

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Review: Fabulous Monsters

Preaching in the time of the Nazis

Agony in the Pulpit, Marc Saperstein, Hebrew Union College, £81

By Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild

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Preaching in the time of the Nazis

Review: The Exiles

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

By Daniel Snowman

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Review: The Exiles

Review: The Thirty-Year Genocide

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

By Colin Shindler

2 min read

Review: The Thirty-Year Genocide

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

By Angela Kiverstein

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Interview: children's author Helen Peters

Review: Those Who Come After

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

By Rabbi Julia Neuberger

2 min read

Review: Those Who Come After

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