Jewishness
Curiouser and curiouser: The Strangers by Naomi Alderman, reviewed
This aptly titled novel might be Alderman’s weirdest book yet – a cross between a work of fiction and a memoir, whose main character, called Naomi Alderman, says gave her ‘a kind of freedom with both forms’
Love, loneliness and all that jazz
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg), the prolific, Oscar-winning auteur, New Orleans-style jazz clarinettist, doyen of New York delicatessen society,…
Diary
Wellington, Ontario A British visitor to this village might be disoriented by the flags. They look almost exactly like the…
Letter from Tel Aviv
‘There’s a dark cloud rising from the desert floor/ I packed my bags and I’m heading straight into the storm/…
Aesthete and huckster
Sam Leith suspects that even such a distinguished connoisseur as Bernard Berenson did not always play a straight bat
