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Book review: The Last Colony - A long fight to allow a people to return home

Renowned international barrister Philippe Sands returns with the story of how the entire local population of the Chagos archipelago were uprooted by a 1960s lease deal between Britain and the US

By Amanda Hopkinson

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Chagossian families celebrate at the Groupe Refugies Chagos headquarters on February 25, 2019 the news that the United Nations' top court had told Britain to give up control of the Indian Ocean archipelago. - The UN's International Court of Justice in The Hague said in a legal opinion on February 25 that Britain had illegally split the islands from Mauritius before independence in 1968, after which the entire population of islanders was evicted. It is a major development in a decades-old row with Mauritius over an archipelago that is now home to a huge US airbase. The court's opinion is non-binding but carries heavy symbolic and political weight. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

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Book review: The Disappearance of Josef Mengele - The monster who hid from justice

By David Herman

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Not Safe For Work Book review: Playing the Hollywood game

By Jennifer Lipman

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Book review: Sisters in Resistance - The dictator’s daughter’s double life

By Amanda Hopkinson

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Come to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends Book review: On the trail of the mysterious Boris

In this gripping book, author Kinstler asks: was my grandfather a war criminal?

By Daniel Snowman

2 min read

August 19, 2022 11:26

Come to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends Book review: On the trail of the mysterious Boris

Jews fear copycat attacks in wake of Salman Rushdie's stabbing

Community security groups have called for constant vigilance to guard against further ‘lone wolf’ terror

By Felix Pope

4 min read

August 18, 2022 09:49

Jews fear copycat attacks in wake of Salman Rushdie's stabbing

Children's books review: Combat, chaos and comedy in David Solomons’s new offering plus a pasta cat from Michael Rosen

Even the most action-hungry reader will be satisfied by Solomons' entertaining fable

By Angela Kiverstein

1 min read

August 12, 2022 15:48

Children's books review: Combat, chaos and comedy in David Solomons’s new offering plus a pasta cat from Michael Rosen

Deceit book review: Intriguing introduction to the work of largely forgotten Russian emigre Yuri Felsen

English translation of the first novel of a writer whose work elicits profound truths about human nature and its motivations

By Mark Glanville

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August 11, 2022 10:54

Deceit book review: Intriguing introduction to the work of largely forgotten Russian emigre Yuri Felsen

Book review: Saving Freud - Friends who saved the reluctant refugee

Father of psychoanalysis comes alive again in this book through the eyes of people who cared deeply that he should survive

By Stephen Frosh

2 min read

August 5, 2022 15:48

circa 1935: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) the neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. (Photo by Hans Casparius/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Book review: The Incandescent Threads - Mystic hokum or a popular classic?

The latest in author's Sephardic Cycle begins begins by portraying the relationship between a Jewish-American artist and his father, a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw

By David Herman

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August 5, 2022 15:48

Book review: The Incandescent Threads - Mystic hokum or a popular classic?

By Emma Shevah

Why don't men read books by women?

We read to learn of the life experiences of others, which increases our empathy and understanding: why wouldn’t we try to understand the experiences of half of the world’s population?

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August 4, 2022 11:59

Inspired by my namesake who died in the Holocaust

A family tragedy, and a strange coincidence sparked Melanie Levensohn’s creativity

By Joy Sable

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August 4, 2022 10:46

Inspired by my namesake who died in the Holocaust

Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley book review - Claim to enduring fame is just wishful thinking

Self-indulgent romantic satire leaves you feeling disappointed

By Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

July 28, 2022 15:58

Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley book review - Claim to enduring fame is just wishful thinking

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Book review: The Last Colony - A long fight to allow a people to return home

Book review: The Disappearance of Josef Mengele - The monster who hid from justice

Not Safe For Work Book review: Playing the Hollywood game

Book review: Sisters in Resistance - The dictator’s daughter’s double life

Mr Malcolm’s List Film review: A beautifully acted comedy of errors

Obituary: A.B. Yehoshua

Licoricia of Winchester Book review: A fascinating look at the richest woman in medieval England

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