Darren Richman

3 days ago | inews.co.uk | Darren Richman

You might not know the name, but you’ll know the face. Tom Basden has been writing and acting for a couple of decades, working on Peep Show, Fresh Meat, After Life and Man vs Bee along the way. But right now is something of a boom time for the comedian. He has recently finished filming series three of Here We Go, his family sitcom for the BBC that never forgets to be funny.

2 weeks ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Darren Richman

Jean Hannah Edelstein is talking to me about her breasts. This isn’t how it seems. The British-American writer is speaking from her home in New Jersey and explaining how she came to write Breasts, a short memoir in which the form reflects the content, as underlined by the subtitle: “A relatively brief relationship”. Edelstein charts the relationship with her body in three distinct chapters on sex, food and cancer; the result is a cathartic and powerful work that clocks in at under 100 pages.

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Darren Richman

First, some context. David is the man responsible for Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, perhaps the two greatest American television comedies of the modern era. He is the Stravinsky of sitcom, a towering figure who broke the rules and changed the game. Maher, on the other hand, is a man who spent decades confusing being an atheist with having a personality.

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Darren Richman

Children of Radium is not the book Joe Dunthorne expected to write. The Welsh author has had a varied literary career that began with Submarine, a coming-of-age novel that was adapted into a beloved feature film by Richard Ayoade. Since then, he has written a novel set in a rural commune, another about marriage and friendship set against the backdrop of the 2011 London riots, as well as a collection of poetry. Now he has turned to non-fiction and produced a Holocaust memoir like no other.

2 months ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Darren Richman

My grandfather had a habit that never failed to make us laugh. In his third and final act, Zigi Shipper became a public figure as a result of his commitment to sharing his experience of the Holocaust years with younger generations. He was a beloved figure with a lust for life and became renowned for speaking about his time in Auschwitz without a trace of bitterness.