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: We're in search of a new Messiah – whether it's Murray or Jackson
We seem to be in need of big emotion at the moment. Joy or grief, it doesn’t matter
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Howard Jacobson: The eroticism of high heels disappears once they reach seven inches
Saturday, 27 June 2009
I spent my first term’s student grant on stilettos for the girl I loved
Howard Jacobson: Live fast, die young – or spend your old age playing canasta with the ladies
Saturday, 20 June 2009
The latest figures showing that men are 100 times more likely to die of everything than women – and at a quarter of their age, and in double the agony – are all I need. I am approaching the age at which my father died – I am not actually, but if you fear you are, you are. What, when all is said and done, does "approaching" mean? Life is just one short, inescapable approach. I had a friend at university who kept a notebook of the ages at which his father, his grandfather, his great-grandfather, his great-great-grandfather etc, kicked the bucket, ticking each off and throwing a small gloomy party in his rooms as soon he'd survived it. But he only gave us water. His maternal grandfather had died of sherry poisoning.
Howard Jacobson: I can forgive Gordon Brown anything but Sir Alan Sugar's appointment
Saturday, 13 June 2009
All along, in the dismal gloaming, he fantasised about prancing airily like Tony
Howard Jacobson: There is nobility in opting out, in refusing what the world is offering
Saturday, 6 June 2009
It’s why I admire J D Salinger from whom nobody’s heard aword for decades
Howard Jacobson: It's not the uneducated we should blame for our national philistinism
Saturday, 30 May 2009
Denial of scholarly seriousness is the true scandal of the Oxford poetry affair
Howard Jacobson: Italian food is a wonderful thing – as long as you eat it in England
Saturday, 23 May 2009
Regional food is almost invariably peasant food and I am not a peasant
Howard Jacobson: Without a healthy dose of intelligence, sex is just a mechanical process
Saturday, 16 May 2009
A bit of rough is a fantasy only in the minds of the well educated
Howard Jacobson: The money men were bound to win, but Melvyn showed us how good TV can be
Sunday, 10 May 2009
Our writer admires how his friend kept the South Bank Show's bean-counters at bay
Howard Jacobson: A letter to an anti-Semite who isn't
Saturday, 9 May 2009
Your anti-Zionism is tending to an extremism.
Howard Jacobson: Never underestimate the power of the of those old Austrian-Slavic legends
Saturday, 2 May 2009
It’s the madness of erotic love which ballet can speak of as nothing else can
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