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Book review: Basket of Deplorables

David Herman enjoys Tom Rachman's smartly satirical tales.

By David Herman

1 min read

Book review: Basket of Deplorables

Madness, anxiety and poetry

Madness, anxiety and poetry

Joanne Limburg reviews two new collections of poetry

By Joanne Limburg

2 min read

Margaret Thatcher — Zion Lady

Margaret Thatcher — Zion Lady

By Geoffrey Alderman

1 min read

Book review: Nicole Krauss Forest Dark

Book review: Nicole Krauss Forest Dark

David Herman isn't impressed by a very literary novel

By David Herman

2 min read

Welcome to a world of self-interest

'People follow shiny objects...Trump is the shiny object' according to Daniel Levin, author of a new book on international politics. Jennifer Lipman met him.

By Jennifer Lipman

5 min read

How Orthodoxy responds to change

Challenge and Continuity: Rabbinic Responses to Modernity, Science and Tragedy Yoni Birnbaum, Valentine Mitchell, £25 (pb £12.95)

By Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski

1 min read

Drawn across Europe on the Kindertransport

A graphic adaptation of a child refugee's arrival in Britain

1 min read

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Fiction on firm factual base

Monica Porter salutes an ex-colleague's Moscow-set novel

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A call to open hearts

Sipora Levy welcomes a 'tender' novel about parenting a transgender child.

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Unpicking the past

A novel with a protagonist who suffers from Alzheimers, written by an author with an early onset form of the disease

By Madeleine Kingsley

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A narrative of wonders

David Herman has high praise for Jonathan Levi's novel, which has taken 15 years to find a British publisher.

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A narrative of wonders

A voice for a silent heroine

Penny Joelson's debut Young Adult novel tells the story of a girl who cannot communicate

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A voice for a silent heroine

Trumpeting out loud

Sam Bourne (aka Jonathan Freedland) doesn't actually mention the current occupant of the Oval Office in his new thriller 'To Kill the President', but we know who he means

By Alan Montague

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Trumpeting out loud

Book review: The Origin of the Jews by Steven Weitzman

How did we get here — and from where?

By Professor David-Hillel Ruben

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Book review: The Origin of the Jews by Steven Weitzman

Book review: The Attack of the 50ft Women

A real-life Handmaid's Tale, this hard-hitting, non-fiction book shows how dystopian our reality still is for women in the UK and beyond.

By Marina Gerner

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Book review: The Attack of the 50ft Women

Book Review: Left crying out for more

With Kissin's memoirs, less is less

By Stephen Pollard

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