identity

Tim Franks goes in search of what it means to be Jewish

5 July 2025 9:00 am

In a thought-provoking family history, the BBC journalist addresses questions of identity – and to what extent we are products of our forebears

Should family history, however painful, be memorialised forever?

14 June 2025 9:00 am

What to hold on to and what to let go of is Samantha Ellis’s dilemma when trying to explain the complexities of their Judeo-Iraqi heritage to her young son

The past is another country: Ripeness, by Sarah Moss, reviewed

14 June 2025 9:00 am

The voice of teenage Edith caring for her pregnant sister in Italy alternates with that of her elderly self in contemporary Ireland in a story of identity, belonging and consent

The right way

4 January 2014 9:00 am

We need conservatism now more than ever