Books

By David Herman

Israeli writers don’t need a Sally Rooney lecture

The Irish novelist prefers dogma to engaging with others, and reveals her own ignorance

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October 21, 2021 14:14

Israeli writers don’t need a Sally Rooney lecture

Robert Peston: the outsider who wants to include us all

ITN's political editor has written a thriller - with a Jewish hero. But how much is fact and how much is fiction?

By Keren David

6 min read

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September 23, 2021 16:54

F63M1D Robert Peston meets Nick Robinson at Cheltenham Literature Festival Featuring: Robert Peston Where: Cheltenham, United Kingdom When: 10 Oct 2015

Review: Is Chesterton exposé  an act of atonement?

A great writer’s failings are laid bare with a hint of ambivalence

By Daniel Johnson

2 min read

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September 20, 2021 17:10

Review: Is Chesterton exposé  an act of atonement?

Memories of the Med

Claudian Roden's latest cookery book is her most personal yet

By Victoria Prever

5 min read

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September 9, 2021 13:46

Claudia Roden photographed for Waitrose magazine at home in London

By Andrew Pessin

What can we do about campus hate? I’ve written a satirical novel

Using my experience as an academic philosopher, I have written a book that sends up cancel culture and its ideology

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September 9, 2021 10:17

What can we do about campus hate? I’ve written a satirical novel

How does Judaism view other religions?

The controversy over Jonathan Sacks's book, The Dignity of Difference, written as a response to 9/11, has left lingering questions about Judaism's attitude towards other faiths

By Simon Rocker

3 min read

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August 27, 2021 12:37

NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: (SEPTEMBER 11 RETROSPECTIVE) Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Photo by Robert Giroux/Getty Images)

Review: Pursuit of purpose

Sipora Levy finds this guide to living a more fulfilling life inspiring

By Sipora Levy

1 min read

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August 26, 2021 13:05

The fictionalising of Auschwitz

There's been a huge publishing boom in books about the Holocaust - often told in the form of a novel. Is this a good thing?

By Jenni Frazer

7 min read

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August 18, 2021 20:03

From Top Gear to a thriller

TV director Brian Klein's lockdown project was the thriller about Hitler he'd always wanted to write - and now it's been published.

By Jenni Frazer

6 min read

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August 18, 2021 14:26

Review: Once We Were Slaves

Review: After massacre, a butterfly

Review: Working For The War Effort

Review: Spymaster: The Man who Saved MI6

Review: The Frequency of Us

Review: The Whistleblower

The women in the shadows: The secret lives of the Rothschild women

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