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David Herman

To whom does Kafka belong?
In telling the story of Kafka's papers, Benjamin Balint’s new book explores a larger issue: who owns Kafka?
David Herman

Low points of life with Father
This has been an extraordinary autumn for books about the havoc bad fathers wreak on their children. It is hard to know which father comes out worst: Jonathan Miller or Steve Jobs
David Herman

Acerbic enemy of cowardice
The latest volume of Frederic Raphael's diaries is a book full of bite and feline gossip
David Herman

The boy in the ice-cream shop
Was Hans Asperger a benevolent and humane doctor? Or was he deeply implicated in Nazi psychiatry and its darkest episode, euthanasia?
David Herman

Overrated: Ken Loach
The socialist filmmaker has usually been more popular with critics and film prize juries than with the public
David Herman

Monument to a moment
Why is the BBC's Civilisations such a mess?
David Herman

Family saga in war and peace
The story of a family over two generations becomes embedded in the history of the 20th century in Mark Mazower's What You Did Not Tell
David Herman

Ignored no more
David Bomberg was one of the great British artists of the 20th century but was always an outsider and suffered neglect for much of his career
David Herman

Thespian Agitprop
Why is British theatre about Israel so relentlessly one-note?
David Herman

Shouted down

Honest analysis of Labour under Corbyn during the election was buried by mainstream news outlets

David Herman

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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