Howard Jacobson
Mother’s Boy by Howard Jacobson review – a captivatingly melodramatic memoir
The writer’s account of his tortured journey to adulthood is wildly lacking in proportion, and all the better for it
Alex Clark
09, Mar, 2022 @11:00 AM
Mother’s Boy by Howard Jacobson review – a literary titan ill at ease in the world
Jacobson’s intriguing account of his family and formative years details his journey from nomadic lost soul to celebrated novelist
Joe Moshenska
27, Feb, 2022 @7:00 AM
Israel's West Bank plans condemned by leading British Jewish figures
Simon Schama and Sir Malcolm Rifkind among those warning that annexation ‘would have grave consequences’ for Palestinians
Harriet Sherwood
05, Jun, 2020 @10:49 AM
Howard Jacobson: 'A feelgood Holocaust exploits the dead and demeans the living'
It once felt impious just to mention Auschwitz. Now, 75 years after its liberation, the death camp has spawned a literary subgenre – and Hitler is in Oscar-nominated comedy Jojo Rabbit. Are we betraying the dead?
Howard Jacobson
23, Jan, 2020 @6:00 AM
Live a Little by Howard Jacobson review – wonderful
Love blossoms between two London ninetysomethings in this beautifully observed comic novel
Tim Adams
08, Jul, 2019 @8:00 AM
On my radar: Howard Jacobson’s cultural highlights
The novelist on John Malkovich’s latest stage foray, what he’d like printed on a T-shirt and the allure of mince and potatoes
Howard Jacobson
07, Jul, 2019 @8:00 AM
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner review – smart, funny story of love and sex
A New York journalist’s debut recalls Franzen or Roth – but is much more than just another wannabe Great American Novel
Katy Guest
29, Jun, 2019 @6:30 AM
Live a Little by Howard Jacobson review – the torments of desire
This bitterly funny observation of the terror and humiliations of falling in love in old age shows Jacobson on fine form
Alex Clark
28, Jun, 2019 @6:30 AM
'The problem is the reader': Howard Jacobson says the novel is not dead
Writer laments short attention spans and decline of nuanced criticism in age of social media
Sian Cain
07, Jul, 2018 @4:51 PM
What it is like to win the Booker prize, by Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Peter Carey and more
As the Man Booker prize turns 50 and readers vote for their favourite ever recipient, novelists reveal the highs (and lows) of winning ‘the Oscar’ of the literary world
Hilary Mantel, Julian Barnes Margaret Atwood, Howard Jacobson, Anne Enright, Peter Carey, Marlon James Pat Barker, John Banville, Penelope Lively, Ben Okri and DBC Pierre
30, Jun, 2018 @8:00 AM
Howard Jacobson: ‘Jews know what antisemitism is and what it isn’t. To invent it would be a sacrilege’
I still think Britain is a fine country to be a Jew in. But it is as though I now live in the shadow of an unseen enemy
Howard Jacobson
07, Apr, 2018 @7:00 AM
Howard Jacobson on Manchester: ‘I lack its passion for football and Noel Gallagher’
The author celebrates the mirth and raucousness of the city that shaped him, and explains why he feels like a fraud when he calls himself Mancunian
Howard Jacobson
17, Mar, 2018 @10:00 AM
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