5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week (opens in new tab)

Our smorgasbord of sumptuous reviews this week includes Hermione Hoby on Harriet Clark’s The Hill, Avi Shlaim on Omer Bartov’s Israel: What Went Wrong, Parul Sehgal on Gisèle Pelicot’s A Hymn to Life, Nicolás Medina Mora on Álvaro Enrigue’s Now I Surrender, Sophie Gilbert on Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear.Article continues after advertisement * “The premise sounds like a bad dream: Towering above your life stands a hill that you must keep ascending and descending forever. Or, to put the conce...