Reviews and Comments

Andrey Bely's Petersburg by Olga M. Cooke, Beyer, Thomas R., Jr., Thomas R. Beyer

Davening by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Jewish With Feeling by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman Schachter, Joel Segel

The book of separation by Tova Mirvis

The author describes how she left both Orthodox Judaism and her marriage and followed her inner compass to forge a …

Bad Rabbi by Eddy Portnoy

The Exodus by Richard Elliott Friedman

Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, literary scholars, anthropologists, and filmmakers are drawn to the mystery of the exodus. Unable to …

Great north road by Peter F. Hamilton

Futuristic speculation combines with murder when a scientific expedition on a faraway planet searches for an alien species only to …

March violets by Philip Kerr

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently, #1)

There is a long tradition of Great Detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for …

Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman

The abyss beyond dreams by Peter F. Hamilton (Novel of the Commonwealth)

"A clash of cultures in the Void pits humanity against a shape-changing alien species, and sees if two warring races …

The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch (Rivers of London, #6)

Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of PC Peter Grant or the Folly, even when they happen at an …

La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman, Jean Esch (The Book of Dust Volume One)

Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. And so perhaps it …

Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch (Rivers of London, #5)

When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant is sent out of London …

Broken homes by Ben Aaronovitch (A Rivers of London novel)

My name is Peter Grant, and I'm a keeper of the secret flame. Truth be told, there's a lot I …