Booker and Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarcuk’s latest work falls slightly short of her previous literary achievements
By Amanda Hopkinson
The leading Israeli novelist’s new book fails to ask tough questions about the Jewish state’s implacable enemies
By David Herman
From a kippah-wearing blue furry monster to the war efforts of courageous Jewish siblings, we select the most exciting fiction for kids
By Angela Kiverstein
The Trump portrayed here is no monster but it is a portrait of a hustler who is still hustling
By John Nathan
In bestselling Jodi Picoult’s latest book some of the Bard’s most famous works were written by a Jewish woman who observes Friday night and Yom Kippur and sits a version of shiva when her friend dies
By Jennifer Lipman
The Pulitzer-nominated novelist and short story writer who has died aged 96 had a ‘uniquely sharp mind’
Even if you don’t fully agree with his views, Holocaust survivor Saul Friedländer’s centrality to Israeli history makes his analysis of the country vital
By Felix Pope
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Sarah Sultoon on how her experience reporting on Hezbollah and Lebanon steered her approach to writing her novel Dirt
By Natalie Goldwater
Aron Goldin’s first book thrusts his intrepid East End protagonist on the trial of a serial killer in the intriguing setting of a 19th-century Constantinople
This personal and very painful book should disabuse anyone of the notion that there are easy answers for the Jewish state
Marina Gerner’s new book uncovers myriad health innovations for women, offering eye-opening solutions to the ways our medical system snubs female pain
By Elisa Bray
Maya Arad’s trio of widely feted novellas examine the familial and professional challenges facing Jews in California and in the Jewish state
James Roseman’s debut novel explores American Jewish identity and grief
By Eliana Jordan
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
Half of the six authors shortlisted for the prestigious literary award are Jewish, and five are women – the most in Booker Prize history
