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: Stranded in snowy Washington, where they're panic-buying bread and shovels
The queues stretch out into the street. It’s not just us who go to pieces in extremity
Recently by Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson: Blair may have shown spectacularly bad judgement, but it doesn't make him a liar
Saturday, 6 February 2010
It is possible to have a superficial mind and to employ it with sincerity
Howard Jacobson: Comedians have their uses when you're feeling low in Wolverhampton
Saturday, 30 January 2010
I wanted to express gratitude to someone whose comic gifts I admired
Howard Jacobson: We don't dare to criticise 'real people' – just those in the twittersphere
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Forget the inelegance, it's the intellectual laziness we should be concerned about
Howard Jacobson: Civil liberties or civil protection – which is the more important?
Saturday, 16 January 2010
Howard Jacobson: When freedom becomes ideological it invariably ends up our jailer
Howard Jacobson: Some things are more important than human rights – life and love, for starters
Saturday, 9 January 2010
Those who offer to act in freedom’s name should not take that name in vain
Howard Jacobson: Twenty-two, male and introspective – of course he should have been on a no-fly list
Saturday, 2 January 2010
It seems that if you can’t replenish the human race, depleting it is the next best thing
Howard Jacobson: Funny how the scenes of contentment you picture for yourself never materialise
Saturday, 26 December 2009
I fancied that one day I’d be sipping Claret while reading Tolstoy in the original
Howard Jacobson: We debase our cherished relationships with every mindless 'love you'
Saturday, 19 December 2009
It conceals what we truly (madly, deeply) feel, especially from ourselves
Howard Jacobson: I don't believe in the joy of giving. What's wrong with a tangerine and a Toblerone?
Saturday, 12 December 2009
Modern children are greedy and need to be resisted for their own future good
Howard Jacobson: Let prejudice be servant to the facts, and not the other way round
Saturday, 5 December 2009
I am wary of accepting someone is an ‘ardent’ Zionist on the say-so of someone who isn’t
|
|
Columnist Comments
• Steve Richards: The false promise of romantic ideas
Practical politicians raise taxpayer money. Romantics just sing along to John Lennon
• Brian Viner: 'Villages and their pubs seem to have volatile marriages these days'
There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth here in north Herefordshire
Most popular in Opinion
Read
1 Robert Fisk: Passport to the truth in Dubai remains secret
2 Mark Steel: No escape from the curse of 'easy-listening' radio
3 Bruce Anderson: We not only have a right to use torture. We have a duty
4 Hamish McRae: The inflation genie is out of the bottle
5 Matthew Norman: Welcome back, Ray Gosling – the voice of humanity
6 Robert Fisk: Britain's explanation is riddled with inconsistencies. It's time to come clean
7 Robert Fisk’s World: Arieli is a man with a plan. The trouble is, it's a map of Israel
Emailed
1 Robert Fisk: Passport to the truth in Dubai remains secret
2 John Lichfield: A lesson, son, in crisis and paradox
3 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The closed minds that deny a civilisation's glories
5 Dominic Lawson: How can the state justify supporting homeopathy?
6 State of denial: Robert Fisk searches for peace in Israel
7 Leading article: A policy of desperation on Iran
8 Terence Blacker: 'Disorders' for the next generation
9 Letters: The torture debate part 2
10 Rupert Cornwell: The incredible story of the most important woman in the history of modern medicine
Commented
1Robert Fisk: Passport to the truth in Dubai remains secret
2Ciao, baby! Why Italy just can't say no to Silvio
3Football accused in homophobia row
4The secret army still fighting Vietnam war
5Bruce Anderson: We not only have a right to use torture. We have a duty
6Sense of humour failure as BBC boycotts its own comedy show
7Stop locking up asylum children, ministers told
8700,000 Britons swell the ranks of 'underemployed'
9Mark Steel: No escape from the curse of 'easy-listening' radio
|
|
Register for free to find your perfect partner with Independent Singles