Alun David
Synagogues are starting to remove stumbling blocks for people with disabilities
There is rarely no solution to accessibility issues
The Boy in the Woods review: Jewish resilience stars in this Shoah survival story
This adaptation of a Holocaust memoir provides a distinctive take on the meaning of remembrance in the face of catastrophe
Ripley review: Dark designs with a monochrome finish
Clumsy blast through literary history
Alun David is underwhelmed by a book about literary thinkers
Growing up middle class in Nazi Germany
Alun David reviews an account of a wartime childhood
The Diaries by Franz Kafka review: Into Kafka’s workshop
New translation of the diary of a literary giant provides an insight into his unique artistry
The Maniac review: Huge ideas spread too thin
There are lively moments but this fictionalised account of 20th-century polymath John von Neumann will disappoint many readers
Of Maus and men: Valuable insights into a controversial classic
A significant aid towards the understanding of the graphic novel
Book review: The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature - No conspiracy, we’re just connected
Author has notion of meritocracy in his sights in unconventional perspective on a golden age for Jews in American literature
Old Truths and New Clichés book review: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer - The universal mamaloshen
The essays in this volume may not match Singer’s fiction at its best, but they provide an invaluable supplement to our understanding of this extraordinary writer’s vision
The Young Pretender: The Dramatic Return of Master Betty book review: A child star’s tragi-comic life
Author Michael Arditti executes a sustained pastiche of early 19th-century English in which Georgian Britain comes vividly to life
Damon Galgut The Promise review: Commitment and consequence
Review: Cathedral by Ben Hopkins
Reviewer Alun David is won over by architectural broiges
Review: My Father’s Letters
The book’s signal achievement is vividly and intimately to present the human cost of tyranny, writes Alun David
Book review: On Turpentine Lane and Good Riddance
Elinor Lipman is a clever writer, who offers accessible entertainment, but she also asks her own questions about what the purpose of literature might be
Review: About Time
This book is well-observed, humane, and very funny, writes Alun David
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