Author's lacklustre findings on life of socialite might better have been contained to a magazine feature
By Jennifer Lipman
A more psychological than biographical profile that reveals the state of the great playwright's mind
By John Nathan
New memoir captures Fleet Street’s legendary lunching days
By Stephen Pollard
First authorised biography of the screen siren feels like a missed opportunity
By Georgia L Gilholy
We gave the English fish and chips and bagels - but our eating habits stoked deadly hate
By Diane Purkiss
Victoria Prever picks her favourite cookbooks of the year
By Victoria Prever
Successful RSC musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1988 tale gets the big-screen treatment
By Linda Marric
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This illuminating autobiography, stretching down the decades of the 20th century and republished for the first time in 60 years, recalls what a remarkable woman she was
By Colin Shindler
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Richard Rabinowitz's book traces his unremarkable parents’ lives by examining the possessions that gave their existence meaning
Priceless fragment of Shakespeare's First Folio, dating from 1623, is gifted to the National Library of Israel
By Jenni Frazer
To mark the centenary of her birth, a celebration of a writer whose work focused on the roles of men and women
By David Herman
His leather jacket, the boat with a Yiddish name — the publication offers a fascinating insight into the Nobel Prize winner
A highly original and enjoyable take on Israel’s first woman leader
By Amanda Hopkinson
Author has notion of meritocracy in his sights in unconventional perspective on a golden age for Jews in American literature
By Alun David
Emily Tamkin's new book examines the American Jewish crisis. Zoe Strimpel meets her
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An unconvincing survey of modern British Jews, much of which was gleaned from conversations conducted over Zoom during lockdown
By Mark Glanville
