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
BooksMy 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
BooksChildren’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
Books 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
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 17:41
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 11:43
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 18:23
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 18:17
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 17:41
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 18:22
My Name is Stramer review: ‘One of the great east European novels of our time’Mikołaj ŁoziNski’s fifth novel is a masterpiece of foreshadowing and, surely, a future Pushkin Press classicBy David Herman2 min read||August 21, 2025 15:42
Apple Books selling reviled antisemitic conspiracy text for 49pThe description for The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion on Apple’s website reads: ‘Truth or hoax...read and decide by yourself.’By Jacob Jaffa2 min read||August 11, 2025 16:03
The Wanderings of Isaac André Gedalia review: ‘deeply affecting memoir of loss and grief’Sylvie Weil’s unusual work is an interminable search of a resolution to life’s meaning, recalling the prototype of the wandering Jew of medieval loreBy Amanda Hopkinson2 min read||August 8, 2025 14:14
