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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Twitter or toasters: if we don’t like what they bring to our lives, we can simply shut them out
02 August 2013 03:17 PM
If we blame the medium for everything, must we charge the toaster for inciting lust?
I was a self-hating child, so if it’s a choice between babies and my 100-year-old mother-in-law...
26 July 2013 05:02 PM
The old make for far more stimulating company than the young
If the Rolling Stones don’t make a fascist of me, then Andy Murray surely will
12 July 2013 03:40 PM
Never join, is my motto. Never clap along, never sing along, never do as asked
A fiver says it should be D H Lawrence’s face on the back of one of our notes
05 July 2013 04:29 PM
If Jane Austen had genius, then we need another word again for what Lawrence had
Seduced by the fedora, turned off by the trilby – a man’s hat can tell you a lot about his art
28 June 2013 05:20 PM
Famous hat-wearers, the painter L S Lowry and the singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen might seem strange bedfellows, but it's what's under that tifter that really counts
We have a right to be grumpy old people – there’s much to be angry about nowadays
21 June 2013 04:22 PM
It's not retirement that defines getting older, it's refusing to play along
In an age where everyone wants to be noticed, is being spied on such a bad thing?
14 June 2013 06:23 PM
If you don’t want agency geeks nosing into what you put online, then don’t put it there
The Children's Laureate says education needs relevance, but is 'identifying' really so important?
07 June 2013 04:45 PM
As young readers we probably wouldn’t have said that the best books are inclusive in a way that transcends skin colour, religion or ethnic identity, but we knew they were
According to the commentator Culpability Brown, we have brought these terrors upon ourselves
31 May 2013 04:05 PM
In what other context, these days, do we allow people to tell us we have it coming?
Finding the sweetest way to be insulting to someone is one of the few consolations left to us
24 May 2013 04:40 PM
All things considered, calling someone a "swivel-eyed loon" isn't so bad
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