Bristling with strong opinions and fizzing with wit, Julie Burchill narrates the story of how a chance discovery of her father’s copy of a World at War magazine about the holocaust kindled an obsessive love that still sustains her today. Unchosen is not a book for anyone who wants balanced or an even-handed historical account of modern Jewish culture. It’s a spiritual autobiography turned up to the maximum, a book that manages to range from the movingly personal to the raucously outrageous in the space of a single paragraph. Unchosen is the most difficult, most important book she’s ever tried to write. Fortunately for us, it’s also the best
