books

Review: Escape from the Ghetto

The Nine: the women who defied the Nazis

Gwen Strauss's new book tells the story of a group of incredibly courageous women

The Rosenbergs were both Jewish and traitors

She devoted her life to serving Stalin, and a revisionist biography is gravely mistaken

Review: Nabokov and the Real World: Between 
Appreciation and Defence

Robert Alter’s latest book, Nabokov and the Real World, is a selection of his essays on Nabokov’s masterpieces

Review: Daughters of the Labyrinth

Padel brings a painter’s eye to her descriptions of Crete

Review: How to be a Refugee: One Family’s Story of Exile and Belonging

As identity politics become more important worldwide, this book comes as an enormous shock

Review: Looking for an Enemy: Eight Essays on Antisemitism

Glanville relates how the age-old blood libel against Jews has once again resurfaced in both right-wing rhetoric and in left-wing diatribes against Israel

Review: Remote Sympathy

Anne Garvey admires a fictional but authentic account of life in Buchenwald

Review: The Rapunzel Act

Alan Montague finds a different level of authenticity in a thriller