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: Nick Griffin looks as if he'd be light on his feet. So here's what to do with him
The BBC already deals with the BNP leader so it knows where to find him
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Howard Jacobson: Call it snobbery if you like, but someone has to rage against the dying of the light
Saturday, 7 November 2009
The rush to rescue Jordan's false breasts from Amis's teeth is more than gallantry
Make me laugh at an offensive joke – just don't be so smug
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Howard Jacobson: Self-satisfaction is an unpardonable crime. Hence the need to keep a straight face.
Howard Jacobson: Our standing up for minorities is nothing if it's merely special pleading
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Can we censure people for saying hateful things in language that is itself hateful?
Howard Jacobson: There's only one thing a sense of humour will get you – and that's into trouble
Saturday, 17 October 2009
As long as you keep making jokes you don’t have to listen to anybody else
Howard Jacobson: You don't need poverty for art to thrive, but too much privilege could be a bad thing
Saturday, 10 October 2009
Where would Dostoyevsky have been without his gambling
Howard Jacobson: There is nothing petty about the crime that led to Fiona Pilkington's death
Saturday, 3 October 2009
This brutality is the consequence of our failure to teach mutuality and respect
Howard Jacobson: It doesn't matter if there's a recession or not, because Armageddon is on its way
Saturday, 26 September 2009
It’s business as before. Only this time with a hint of maniacal defiance
Howard Jacobson: We'd already shown Megrahi compassion – by not sentencing him to death
Saturday, 5 September 2009
The criminal we do not hang must serve the life sentence that is hanging’s substitute
Howard Jacobson: We may have won the Ashes, but we've managed to lose an old enemy
Saturday, 29 August 2009
Ricky Ponting’s puckish Irish banter is the last cry of anti-colonial grievance
Howard Jacobson: Hark the distant angels sing, plucking a tune on just four strings
Saturday, 22 August 2009
We laugh at the heroic in away that would be impossible if we did not venerate it
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