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.
What I felt when they said Finkler's name
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.
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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?
Howard Jacobson: The Milibands have gone against nature
Saturday, 2 October 2010
I admire Ed. He might be just what the country needs. But the country isn’t everything
Howard Jacobson: Lost and alone amid the rubble
Saturday, 11 September 2010
God for the God-needing is less about explaining how we got into this world and more about how to get through it now we’re here
Howard Jacobson: The English sound of Hindu bagpipes
Saturday, 4 September 2010
This music somehow reflected the spirituality of India via the emotionalism of Scotland thanks to the citizenry of Bolton
Howard Jacobson: Conspiracy theorists lack imagination
Saturday, 28 August 2010
In our determined unimaginativeness, we turn Kelly and Blair alike into less than men
Howard Jacobson: Rage, rage against educational defeatism!
Saturday, 21 August 2010
We don't use the phrase "dumbing down" in this column.
Howard Jacobson: It's that time of the year again, again
Saturday, 14 August 2010
If the return of football is always cruel, this year it’s even crueller because it never went away
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