Books This is how we defeat Britain’s far rightA welcome guide on combatting extremism from a figure who can draw on decades of hard-won street-level experience doing exactly thatBy David Bennun4 min read
BooksThe Right of Passage review: a harrowing tale of a couple trapped in Nazi EuropeThis moving and tense Holocaust memoir is a fitting tribute to a remarkable and courageous husband and wife whose lives ended in the most appalling circumstances, and who might otherwise be forgottenBy Robert Low3 min read
BooksFall, Bomb, Fall review: ‘haunting on the Dutch experience of war’Originally published in 1950, and now translated into English by the Pushkin Press, the teenager at the centre of this novel is so bored he wishes for all-out war...By David Herman1 min read
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
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
My 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||September 24, 2025 20:25
Children’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||September 19, 2025 18:04
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||September 15, 2025 13:53
Happy New Years review: ‘another fine novel by one of Israel’s best writers’The Hebrew teacher in Maya Arad’s latest novel is a heroine for our timesBy David Herman1 min read||September 12, 2025 16:41
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||September 9, 2025 10:43
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||September 5, 2025 17:23
Operation 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||September 5, 2025 17:17
The 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||September 2, 2025 16:41
Rooms 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||August 21, 2025 17:22
