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Book Reviews: Evacuation, Errant and Stone.Bread.Salt

Peter Lawson reads some near-poetic prose — and actual poetry.

By Peter Lawson

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Book Reviews: Evacuation, Errant and Stone.Bread.Salt

Book Review: The Water Thief

Book Review: The Water Thief

Marina Gerner finds hope in a tale of a troubled hero in Claire Hajaj's fiction

By Marina Gerner

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A new chapter for the mistress of Cliveden

A new chapter for the mistress of Cliveden

This weekend Natalie Livingstone hosts the second Cliveden Literary Festival.

By Gerald Jacobs

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Book Review: Unwanted Advances

Book Review: Unwanted Advances

Anne Garvey salutes a grounded American feminist

By Anne Garvey 

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Children's Books Review

Angela Kirverstein reviews various books for kids age 3+

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Book Review: Layover

Madeleine Kingsley reviews Lisa Zeidner's 'Layover', which explores grief expressed as wild sexual abandon

By Madeleine Kingsley

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Book Review: Rise and Kill First

Ahron Bregman commends a deadly investigation by Ronen Bergman

By Ahron Bregman

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Ben Barkow reviews Steven J Zipperstein's portrait of a prototype pogrom with pieces missing

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The revolutionary ethics of the Bible

Justice for All, Jeremiah Unterman, JPS, £29.99

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Book Review: Children's books for Jewish festivals

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Book Review: Strangers With the Same Dream

Jennifer Lipman reviews Alison Pick's novel about the pitfalls for pioneering families in the Jewish utopia of kibbutz life

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Book Review: We Were the Future

Hester Abrams reviews Yael Neeman's book about the bleaker side of kibbutz life

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Book Review: The Emperor of Shoes

David Herman explores a novel in which a father’s footsteps are too big for his feckless son

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Book Review: Days of Awe

Madeleine Kingsley enjoys a slice of contemporary American fiction

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