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.
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Howard Jacobson: What fresh hell is this? A journey by train
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Saturday, 7 May 2011
First the nuptials, then the killing. Don't tell me it was just coincidence.
Howard Jacobson: Always room for a little vulgarity
Saturday, 30 April 2011
Attend the words of the art establishment. "What makes Lowry so popular is the same thing which stops him being the subject of serious critical attention." Chris Stephens speaking, on ITV's documentary Looking for Lowry, shown last week, Chris Stephens being curator of modern British art at Tate Britain. A nasty job, making sure that no popular artist is exhibited, but someone has to do it.
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Saturday, 23 April 2011
You can’t expect Ofcom to adjudicate between claims of dramatic truth and truth of any other sort
Howard Jacobson: A test too far even for a Rabelaisian
Saturday, 9 April 2011
I go one of two ways when I'm asked about my literary antecedents, depending on my mood.
Howard Jacobson: DH Lawrence, forever misunderstood
Saturday, 2 April 2011
BBC4’s dramatisation of ‘Women in Love’ passes the greatest test. Which is more than can be said for its critics.
Howard Jacobson: Jews on Coronation Street? No thanks
Saturday, 26 March 2011
There’s nothing to stop them having a bunch of Hassidim propping up the barat the Rovers Return.
Howard Jacobson: A land whose writers understand fortitude
Saturday, 19 March 2011
Mishima lowers himself into the terribleness of beauty, and allows all the abject cruelties to pierce him
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Saturday, 12 March 2011
It's become compulsive now. I'm giving everyone the once-over. If I see a coat I like approaching, I move in close
Zion is all around if you look hard enough
Saturday, 5 March 2011
Howard Jacobson: What we are seeing now proves how opportunistic Arab anti-Zionism has been.
Howard Jacobson: Save us from the opinions of the young
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Talk of the 'young' contributes to the idea that the 'budding rose' should supplant 'the rose full blown'
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