Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time film review - A thrilling account of a man who stood for more than many give him credit
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.
Books: Best summer reads — for hipsters to history buffs
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
Book review: The Only Daughter by A.B. Yehoshua - Italian swansong of an Israeli Master
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
Book review: Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview and Other Conversations - A portrait of a very private woman
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
My hero’s name is Lenny Tuchus
Keren David meets a literary agent turned children’s author who’s a hit at both jobs
The Sidekick book review: Winners and losers in sport and life
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
The Young Pretender: The Dramatic Return of Master Betty book review: A child star’s tragi-comic life
Author Michael Arditti executes a sustained pastiche of early 19th-century English in which Georgian Britain comes vividly to life
The Girl in the Green Jumper book review: Portrait of a needy genius
An enthralling account of a muse’s life with troubled artist Cyril Mann
Last of his generation: a tribute to A B Yehoshua
David Herman pays tribute to the acclaimed author's beautifully observed tales of Israel and Israelis
Obituary: leading commentator, thinker and writer Midge Decter
Decter was a controversial and confrontational polemicist who published notorious rants against feminism and homosexuality
The man who escaped from Auschwitz so he could warn Jews of what awaited them there
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
The joy of an unlikely friendship is captured in a new book
Homelands: The History of a Friendship tells the story of how Chitra Ramaswamy met her 'Jewish grandparents'
Book review: Luck: A Personal Account of Fortune, Chance and Risk in Thirteen Investigations
Author David Flusfeder explores his family's history in this fascinating study of fortune
Book review: This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
This love story is not a traditional romance, but a tribute to the complicated relationship between a parent and a child
Ben Aaronovitch: the best-selling writer who made the Met police magical
Jenni Frazer meets an author whose latest book draws on London's Jewish history
Book review: Alice’s Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother’s Cookbook
The chronicle of a petty crime that perhaps adds to our understanding of the Nazis’ intent
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