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: In the face of overwhelming ignorance, it is the pedant's duty to keep battling on
What the unlettered populace does with words today the rest of us will do tomorrow
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Howard Jacobson: In these days of taking tea with terrorists, it isn't always good to talk
Saturday, 8 August 2009
A wise government has two faces. It’s the new chitti-chattiness I’m worried about
Howard Jacobson: All the obsessive hand-washing in the world won't stop those nasty little germs
Saturday, 1 August 2009
My swine flu buddy rings the helpline and they say, yes, sounds like swine flu to them
Howard Jacobson: The rest of us could do with some of Boris Johnson's chicken feed
Saturday, 18 July 2009
That throwaway line is fatuous, distasteful, contemptuous and cruel
Howard Jacobson: I never did see my function as supplier of the wherewithal to feed women's neuroses
Saturday, 11 July 2009
The dull truth is that women like men too much to forgo them
Howard Jacobson: We're in search of a new Messiah – whether it's Murray or Jackson
Saturday, 4 July 2009
We seem to be in need of big emotion at the moment. Joy or grief, it doesn’t matter
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
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