Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
2 Iyar 5785
A fascinating and chilling history of mind manipulation
By Robert Low
This autobiography by the Israeli-born human rights activist powerfully conveys the inner life fuelling her achievements
By Amanda Hopkinson
The essays in this volume may not match Singer’s fiction at its best, but they provide an invaluable supplement to our understanding of this extraordinary writer’s vision
By Alun David
Curb your Enthusiasm director Robert B. Weide spent four decades of his life attempting to make a documentary about his friend and mentor. That film is finally being released, and not a second too soon.
By Linda Marric
What will you be reading in your sunbed this year? Our round-up the best new beach books, from millennial romance and Israeli short stories to wartime sagas
By Jennifer Lipman
The final book by one of the last of that great generation of Israeli writers born in the 1930s is a wonderful farewell from a great literary master
By David Herman
Author and journalist Janet Malcolm is an icon to young females - quite an achievement for a reserved type in what was and still is a tough, male-dominated trade
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Keren David meets a literary agent turned children’s author who’s a hit at both jobs
By Keren David
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The Sidekick has the melancholic and sour feel of Biden’s America and proves why Benjamin Markovits is one of the best American writers of his generation
Author Michael Arditti executes a sustained pastiche of early 19th-century English in which Georgian Britain comes vividly to life
An enthralling account of a muse’s life with troubled artist Cyril Mann
By Mark Glanville
David Herman pays tribute to the acclaimed author's beautifully observed tales of Israel and Israelis
Decter was a controversial and confrontational polemicist who published notorious rants against feminism and homosexuality
By Nathan Abrams
In The Escape Artist, The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, JC journalist Jonathan Freedland tells the incredible story of Slovakian teenager Rudolf Vrba
By Jenni Frazer
Homelands: The History of a Friendship tells the story of how Chitra Ramaswamy met her 'Jewish grandparents'
Author David Flusfeder explores his family's history in this fascinating study of fortune
By David Conway
