David Herman

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.

Review: These are the Names

Lonely life in a Leviathan-like landscape

Review: Lurid & Cute

Energy sapping prose

Review: A Man Lies Dreaming

Nazis, sex, violence

Review: Leaving Berlin

Kanon's latest is set in Berlin in 1948, at the time of the Berlin Airlift and the escalation of the Cold War.