Books

Integration for Jews preceded tragedies

The experiences of Rothschild and Disraeli could have changed Britain, but history records a series of missed opportunities for others

Book review: Basket of Deplorables

David Herman enjoys Tom Rachman's smartly satirical tales.

Madness, anxiety and poetry

Joanne Limburg reviews two new collections of poetry

Margaret Thatcher — Zion Lady

Book review: Nicole Krauss Forest Dark

David Herman isn't impressed by a very literary novel

Welcome to a world of self-interest

'People follow shiny objects...Trump is the shiny object' according to Daniel Levin, author of a new book on international politics. Jennifer Lipman met him.

How Orthodoxy responds to change

Challenge and Continuity: Rabbinic Responses to Modernity, Science and Tragedy Yoni Birnbaum, Valentine Mitchell, £25 (pb £12.95)

Drawn across Europe on the Kindertransport

A graphic adaptation of a child refugee's arrival in Britain

Fiction on firm factual base

Monica Porter salutes an ex-colleague's Moscow-set novel