Howard Jacobson
Celebrated novelist Howard Jacobson's most recent novel is The Finkler Question, published to great acclaim in 2010. An acerbic critic and broadcaster with a passion for literature and art, he is known for his ebullient wit. Recent television programmes such as Jesus the Jew and Creation have also been widely admired.
Howard Jacobson: You'll never catch me going on a march
The moment people start throwing billiard balls at the police, their argument is invalidated
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Howard Jacobson: It's much better you don't know my secrets
Saturday, 4 December 2010
To the degree, then, that WikiLeaks exposes a failure to protect necessary confidentiality, it does a laudable job. Thereafter, its work is contemptible
Howard Jacobson: Once the Ashes starts, I go to pieces
Saturday, 27 November 2010
I go to sleep heavy with anxiety and premonition and get the news I’ve been dreading the moment I wake
Howard Jacobson: Why I'm damned if I'll bleed a radiator
Saturday, 20 November 2010
My father was a man of the sort James May laments. He could paint, he could wire, but hatches were his passion.
Howard Jacobson: How happiness can inspire great art
Saturday, 13 November 2010
Part of Jane Austen’s greatness is something that Mike Leigh also demonstrates in his magnificent new film
Howard Jacobson: Constant worry is the least of my concerns
Saturday, 6 November 2010
If the terror threat is lowered, that’s because we’ve lowered it. Worry is part of our genetic inheritance
Howard Jacobson: What has happened to your dignity, Ann?
Saturday, 30 October 2010
If you are going to weigh in on matters of religion, you can’t turn yourself into a pantomime grouch
Howard Jacobson: In Rooney I see Coriolanus, engine of war
Saturday, 23 October 2010
Some such confusion and rage will almost always explain the strange human impulse to defect
What I felt when they said Finkler's name
Saturday, 16 October 2010
Howard Jacobson: The phone rings with a different tone. The shortlist tone. How do I recognise it? Twenty-seven years of waiting has prepared me.
Howard Jacobson: 'We don't discuss prizes in this column. We try to stay above the fray'
Thursday, 14 October 2010
His relationship with the Man Booker has not always been so cordial, as this Independent article from 2005 reveals...
Howard Jacobson: The end of the pier is too big a loss to bear
Saturday, 9 October 2010
A pier never feels entirely English. Isn’t that what we love – its foreignness, its riskiness?
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