Howard Jacobson
Celebrated novelist Howard Jacobson’s most recent book, Kalooki Nights, was published to wide acclaim in 2006. 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: Thanks to Leonard Cohen, I can see the light that slips through the crack
It’s like a reprimand to people of my temperament. Could he be singing to me?
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Howard Jacobson: Read more literature and less history. That's the lesson of Hitler's deformity
Saturday, 22 November 2008
We feel safe with a monster we have the power to deflate
Howard Jacobson: John Sergeant, like Thatcher, is fully aware of the public's fickle nature
Saturday, 15 November 2008
The judges have come to a conclusion which cynics and nihilists reached years ago
Howard Jacobson: Obama's cool could become political substance
Saturday, 8 November 2008
The President-elect manages to link good citizenship to street cred
Howard Jacobson: Russell Brand winked at me once. And when he winks at you, you stay winked
Saturday, 1 November 2008
Ross has made a little go a long way. Brand has made a lot go almost nowhere
Howard Jacobson: So God 'probably' doesn't exist. Don't these atheists have any conviction?
Saturday, 25 October 2008
This is a cowardly opposition to religious sentiment
Howard Jacobson: God knows, we like a mirthster, but this smart-arsery is not funny
Saturday, 11 October 2008
Laconic cynicism sounds like comedy – we laugh in obedient recognition
Howard Jacobson: Resistance is futile when in the circle of hell known as banking
Saturday, 4 October 2008
Go on, make your fortune. Just don’t forget the materials out of which it came
Howard Jacobson: Oh, to be a working man again – if only for the full English breakfast
Saturday, 27 September 2008
We would gather in a room for drivers and tuck into our pies and puddings
Howard Jacobson: So what is the legacy of the banker's greed? A cynical society – and bad art
Saturday, 20 September 2008
It has become inconceivable that a person might inhabit a moral or intellectual position for its own sake
Howard Jacobson: Why choose between the mind and the flesh? In Italy, you can have both
Saturday, 13 September 2008
For four days, Mantova is given over to inordinately elegant women who go nowhere without a book
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