Gertrude Himmelfarb wanted the Jewish people to be defined by the qualities that had enabled it to endure.

Antonia Fraser’s diary and Harold Pinter’s (temporary) homecoming.

A little anxiety doesn’t hurt.

Daniel Deronda and the post-traditional world.

If you read one 750-page book this year, it should be this one.

A novel for our times, and an exposition “more gripping than anything on Netflix.”