Howard Jacobson
Celebrated novelist Howard Jacobson’s most recent book, The Act Of Love, was published to wide acclaim in 2008. An acerbic cultural critic with a passion for literature and art, he is known for his ebullient wit as well as his unique take on the Jewish experience in Britain.
Howard Jacobson: There's only one thing a sense of humour will get you – and that's into trouble
As long as you keep making jokes you don’t have to listen to anybody else
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Howard Jacobson: You don't need poverty for art to thrive, but too much privilege could be a bad thing
Saturday, 10 October 2009
Where would Dostoyevsky have been without his gambling
Howard Jacobson: There is nothing petty about the crime that led to Fiona Pilkington's death
Saturday, 3 October 2009
This brutality is the consequence of our failure to teach mutuality and respect
Howard Jacobson: It doesn't matter if there's a recession or not, because Armageddon is on its way
Saturday, 26 September 2009
It’s business as before. Only this time with a hint of maniacal defiance
Howard Jacobson: We'd already shown Megrahi compassion – by not sentencing him to death
Saturday, 5 September 2009
The criminal we do not hang must serve the life sentence that is hanging’s substitute
Howard Jacobson: We may have won the Ashes, but we've managed to lose an old enemy
Saturday, 29 August 2009
Ricky Ponting’s puckish Irish banter is the last cry of anti-colonial grievance
Howard Jacobson: Hark the distant angels sing, plucking a tune on just four strings
Saturday, 22 August 2009
We laugh at the heroic in away that would be impossible if we did not venerate it
Howard Jacobson: In the face of overwhelming ignorance, it is the pedant's duty to keep battling on
Saturday, 15 August 2009
What the unlettered populace does with words today the rest of us will do tomorrow
Howard Jacobson: In these days of taking tea with terrorists, it isn't always good to talk
Saturday, 8 August 2009
A wise government has two faces. It’s the new chitti-chattiness I’m worried about
Howard Jacobson: All the obsessive hand-washing in the world won't stop those nasty little germs
Saturday, 1 August 2009
My swine flu buddy rings the helpline and they say, yes, sounds like swine flu to them
Howard Jacobson: The rest of us could do with some of Boris Johnson's chicken feed
Saturday, 18 July 2009
That throwaway line is fatuous, distasteful, contemptuous and cruel
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