Books I Wanted to be Wonderful review: The trials and tribulations of motherhood laid bareThis novel by Lihi Lapid follows two parallel stories to weave a heart-rending portrait of marriage and domesticityBy Jennifer Lipman1 min read
Books Love’s Labour review: How psychoanalysis can help and hinder us in understanding our messy love livesA deeply moving book of case histories which brings the experience of psychoanalysis to lifeBy David Herman2 min read
Eli SharabiHostage by Eli Sharabi review: ‘a highly readable account of barely imaginable nightmare’The first hostage releases a book and instead of the misery memoir you might expect, it is a story of survivalBy Nicole Lampert2 min read
Books Never Again by Jake Wallis Simons review: ‘A book for our times’The author’s new work superbly distils the issues facing the WestBy Stephen Pollard4 min read
BooksOn Antisemitism: A Word In History review – a book to comfort Jew-hate apologists at the expense of JewsThis historical account of antisemitism is a remarkable exercise in cognitive dissonanceBy David Bennun3 min read
BooksMy novel addresses British antisemitism – and that feels rather scary, right nowLeon Craig on publishing her debut in what feels an increasingly hostile literary landscapeBy Leon Craig4 min read
BooksChildren’s books: The season’s new titles for tots, teens and those in betweenFrom marvellous mucoid humour to a madcap fairy tale, here is the best new fiction for kidsBy Angela Kiverstein1 min read
Books Woody Allen’s first novel has been worth the waitThe filmmaker’s debut is as Jewish as can be and a wonderful evocation of New YorkBy David Herman2 min read
Books The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland review: ‘a beautifully constructed book’He tells the story of the courageous groups of Germans who risked their lives to defy Hitler with all the flair of the seasoned thriller writer that he isBy Robert Low2 min read
Books The Rest of Our Lives review: ‘It’s not clear why this novel should matter to anyone’British-American writer Ben Markovits’s new Booker-longlisted novel leaves this reviewer coldBy David Herman2 min read
BooksOperation Wrath of God review: ‘A reminder of the sad need for Mossad – then and now’This fascinating account of Israeli counterterrorism is based on unique access to a huge cache of original documentsBy Robert Low3 min read
BooksThe case for surrealism: ‘Rooms for Vanishing’ author Stuart Nadler on writing catastrophe in our senseless eraThe author’s new book about a Jewish family in post-war exile employs an unconventional format and elements of the supernatural to illustrate the disarray of griefBy Eliana Jordan3 min read
YA booksWhy I have finally finished the novel my late friend and I were writing togetherIvor Baddiel on the new sci-fi thriller he began with children’s author Jonny ZuckerBy Lianne Kolirin 4 min read
BooksRooms for Vanishing review: ‘bogged down by its ambitious concept’The prose is beautiful, but this novel about how the Holocaust has shaped our modern lives is sometimes so hard to follow in a linear fashion, it becomes bewilderingBy Jennifer Lipman2 min read
Books My Name is Stramer review: ‘One of the great east European novels of our time’Mikołaj ŁoziNski’s fifth novel is a masterpiece of foreshadowing and, surely, a future Pushkin Press classicBy David Herman2 min read
Jewish historyEmbracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora review: ‘The case for the diaspora’This is an erudite, provocative and timely book on Jewish accomplishments in ‘exile’, and how they have been to the benefit of Jews and non-Jews alikeBy Rabbi Howard Cooper3 min read
