A long-standing
contributor to the UK national press, Rebecca has worked for many years
as a critic and broadcaster, both in the UK and abroad. She is a former columnist and feature writer for the Daily Telegraph and
has worked as a writer and commissioning editor on Vogue and the Daily
Mail, and as a producer on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. The recipient of an Amnesty International Press Award in 1996, she is a
regular reviewer and feature writer for The Guardian, The New Statesman,
and The Jewish Chronicle, amongst other publications.
Selected Articles
Features
Elisabeth Taylor: A Master of Miniaturism The New Statesman
Showing the Shoah The New Statemsn
The Female Gaze The New Statesman
Let’s All Go Out To Play The New Statesman
Mistaken Identities: The Strange Case of Binyamin Wilkomirski The New Statesman
Lost in Translation: the truth about living overseas
The Guardian
Still My Little Darling: a second child can have a profound impact The Guardian
The Importance of Being Jewish
Jewish Chronicle
The Great Betrayal: Britain’s Educational Apartheid
The New Statesman
What Is Childhood? An enquiry into the Britain’s children Daily Telegraph
Children After 9/11: Restoring Their Faith in the World Daily Telegraph
The Rise of the Only Child Daily Telegraph
To Smack or Not to Smack?
Daily Telegraph
Alexander Gordon: A Prophet in his own Country
History Today
A Handful of Trouble
Daily Telegraph
The Truth About Nurseries
Daily Telegraph
We’re Your Friends: Why Children Need Friendship
Daily Telegraph
Why A Second Child Spells Ruin For Working Mums New Statesman
Profiles
Kate Figes:
The Truth About Couples The Guardian
Elif Shafak The Guardian
Jonathan Safran: Foer
Mad About Meat The Jewish Chronicle
Michael Morpurgo:
Anthem for doomed youth Daily Telegraph
Steve Biddulph
Daily Telegraph
Book Reviews
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr The Guardian
Alexis de Tocqueville by Hugh Brogan The Guardian
The AfterLife by Donald Antrim The Guardian
One of Us by Melissa Benn The Guardian
The Baby in the Mirror by Charles Ferneyhough The Guardian
Why Love Matters by Sue Gerhardt The Guardian
On The Move by Natasha Walters New Statesman
Mr Rosenblum’s List by Natasha Solomons Jewish Chonicle
Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom
Jewish Chronicle
Blind Side of the Heart by Julia Franck
Jewish Chronicle
Clara by Janice Galloway
Prospect Magazine
How Not To Be A Hypocrite by Adam Swift
New Statesman
The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
Daddy Rules by Rachel Sontag
Jewish Chronicle
Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
Jewish Chronicle
Love and War in the Pyrenees by Rosemary Bailey
Jewish Chronicle
Stiffed by Susan Faludi New Statesman
The Hite Report on Shere Hite by Shere Hite New Statesman
The Complete Short Stories of Muriel Spark New Statesman
Auto Da Fay by Fay Weldon New Statesman
One Day by Ardashir Vakil New Statesman
Only Human by Jenny Diski New Statesman
The Parent Trap by Maureen Freely New Statesman
The Sappho Companion by Margaret Reynolds New Statesman
Mr Phillips by John Lanchester New Statesman
Isaac’s Storm: The drowning of Galveston by Erik Larson New Statesman
