David Herman

The Origin of Violence

Staring into — and out of — Vichy France

Writers making waves across Atlantic

The JC essay

Review: The Street Sweeper

Streets ahead of his rivals

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Two sides to every story

Joseph Roth: A Life In Letters

Meandering 'mad corpse'

Review: Lord of Misrule

Review: The Prague Cemetery

Italy's most celebrated literary intellectual conjures up an incendiary mix of fact, fiction and postmodern provocation.

Review: The List

From Mitteleuropa to Finchleystrasse

Review: A Woman In Jerusalem

The family and other explosive concepts

Interview: Peter Owen

The publisher recalls 60 years of independently introducing readers to major authors.

Review: There's No Home

Review: And This Is The Light

Modern novel dressed in old clothes