David Herman

Review: Forbidden Love in St Petersburg

Contrasting states of love and espionage

Broken on the Inside: Memory from the inside out

The task for the reader is to work out which parts are fiction and which are not

A Writer's Journey: Interview with Frederic Raphael

The writer is smart, funny, and honest about antisemitism.

So what's the truth about Bloomsbury and the Jews?

A new BBC drama looks at the Bloomsbury set but has airbrushed out their casual antisemitism

E L Doctorow: The legacy of the American Dickens

Review: The Seven Good Years

In need of protection

Review: The Invisible Collection

Mixed bag from a collectable storyteller

He seized the day as both man and jerk

The Book of Aron: Atrocities sweetened for children

There is a growing genre of children's fiction about the Holocaust.

Among the best of best

Literary Criticism

Review: Wake Up, Sir!

More madhouse than Wodehouse

The Heights of fame for a long forgotten man

Everywhere you go these days, you can see copies of Kolymsky Heights, a thriller written more than 20 years ago.