David Herman is the JC’s chief fiction reviewer
The leading Israeli novelist’s new book fails to ask tough questions about the Jewish state’s implacable enemies
Maya Arad’s trio of widely feted novellas examine the familial and professional challenges facing Jews in California and in the Jewish state
This is the one of the best books written about the Shoah by Bullets, an often overlooked aspect of the Holocaust
Despite its plethora of Yiddishe names, it is difficult to see Self’s latest novel as a reckoning with his Jewish identity and the writing is also a long way from the rhythms of Bellow, Roth and Nicole Krauss
The extraordinary lives of these ordinary people are utterly fascinating
I was bowled over by this rediscovered work of master novelist Antal Szerb
The republishing of Alexander Baron’s books is a reminder of just how outstanding his fiction is
In which I admire a literary critic and psychoanalyst’s work
A hundred years after his death, a new exhibition looks at the man behind the legend, bringing us closer to the literary icon than ever before
Our writer pays tribute to Paul Auster who died this week
This book is a deeply moving account of a devastating attack and its consequences, but it is also guilty of sins of omission
The defiance of a Jewish artist and poet in hiding in wartime Holland is explored in a deeply moving new exhibition in the German capital
This is an extraordinary collection of essays about some extraordinary emigré artists and writers
David Herman finds much of interest in two timely essay collections about antisemitism — but why is there so little emphasis on Iran or immigration?
David Herman relishes the comic energy of Jacobson’s new novel
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