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Fervour by Toby Lloyd, review: An infuriatingly flawed debut novel

The (particularly Jewish) question at the heart of all this is how much we should revisit the past, says Felix Pope

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Fervour by Toby Lloyd, review: An infuriatingly flawed debut novel

"A cold, clear look at things": acclaimed screenwriter and novelist Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael

‘Why still write? What is there better to do?’

Oscar-winner Frederic Raphael is still writing at 92. He tells Mark Glanville how how work has helped him survive tragedies

By Mark Glanville

5 min read

Glorious People by Sasha Salzmann, review: An in-depth study of friendship and family relations across two generations

Glorious People

Glorious People by Sasha Salzmann, review: An in-depth study of friendship and family relations across two generations

Amanda Hopkinson is impressed by a novel about dislocation across the generations

By Amanda Hopkinson

2 min read

Protesters hold placards during a demonstration to protest against antisemitism, in central London on November 26, 2023 (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

These books about hate are already out of date

David Herman finds much of interest in two timely essay collections about antisemitism — but why is there so little emphasis on Iran or immigration?

By David Herman

4 min read

What Will Survive of Us

What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson review: How smart word play can conceal an inner emptiness

David Herman relishes the comic energy of Jacobson’s new novel

By David Herman

2 min read

Glatstein Chronicles

The Glatstein Chronicles by Jacob Glatstein review: A portrait of a Jewish world in its twilight years

One of the foremost 20th century Yiddish poets, Glatstein emigrated from Lublin to New York in 1914

By Mark Glanville

1 min read

Engineers of Human Souls

Clumsy blast through literary history

Alun David is underwhelmed by a book about literary thinkers

1 min read

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Safe Haven: Nazi collaborators

How Britain let butchers of the Holocaust to escape scot-free

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Nicholas Winton’s daughter speaks out

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Milton Friedman – the last conservative?

A new biography of the great economist and public intellectual is also a masterly account of post-War US history

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Fiction review of the year

Our critics’ favourite novels, from a sweetly satirical rom-com to a study in middle-class complicity in the Third Reich

By Karen Glaser

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Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon review: Getting personal with a literary giant

David Herman applauds a memoir that examines the life of Amos Oz

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Arad, ISRAEL: (FILES)-Israeli writer and peace activist Amos Oz posses 26 February 2007 at his home in Arad in southern Israel. Israeli writer Amos Oz has been awarded Spain's high-prestige Prince of Asturias award for literature, organisers said 27 June 2007. Oz was born in 1939 in Jerusalem. AFP PHOTO/RELI AVRAHAMI-ISRAEL OUT (Photo credit should read RELI AVRAHAMI/AFP via Getty Images)

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store book review: Communities come together in Pennsylvania

Jennifer Lipman enjoys a tale of neighbourly harmony in 1930s America

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Growing up middle class in Nazi Germany

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Leo Baeck, the rabbi who resisted tyranny

Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times, Michael A Meyer, University of Pennsylvania Press, £50

By Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild

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Leo Baeck, the rabbi who resisted tyranny

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