Written by Steve Leder, senior rabbi at Wilshere Boulevard Temple in LA, More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us takes readers on a journey through the cycle of life. From the naivety of childhood to that familiar…
Tales of Amazing Animal Heroes
Poet Elaine Feinstein dies age 88
Bar Sagi Young Poets Prize
Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad
Author Judith Kerr dies age 95
A dinner date with a difference
David Herman celebrates Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint
Book review: The Shakespeare Flickbook
A visually intriguing gift from the late graphic designer Abram Games for the bard's 454th birthday. In 1975 Abram Games, one of Britain’s greatest graphic designers, was commissioned to make a Centenary Appeal poster for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His brilliant solution was to become known beyond…
JR OutLoud: Bulgarian-born Dora Reisser tells her life story, from child refugee to prima ballerina and beyond
It’s Dora Reisser’s ability to reinvent herself – from child refugee to prima ballerina, actor, screen star and fashion designer – and in such nail-biting circumstances, that makes her memoir, Dora’s Story, so gripping. Judi Herman visited Reisser at her remarkable London home (it used to be a railway station) to hear more of the stories behind her book, which begins with the little-known history of how Bulgaria’s Jews survived the Holocaust; and about her life in the UK and Israel, including an eye-opening account of how she started her Reisser fashion house – just one of the many new stories Reisser has that could fill a sequel.
Dora's Story by Dora Reisser is out on Troubador. £9.99. www.troubador.co.uk