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: Military service, crocheting and ping-pong – that will separate the men from the boys
The findings of the British Crime Survey were published last week. And it's good news. Crime in this country is falling at record rates. So you only think you've been knifed.
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Howard Jacobson: You can keep your good health and long life. Just give me back my pasta
Saturday, 12 July 2008
Better to live a brief life without fear than live to 100 and afraid of every pea that rolls on to our plate
Howard Jacobson: Stop running. Slow down. And take a good long look – you'll get far more out of art
Saturday, 5 July 2008
I find nothing tiresome about standing rapt before a painting and thinking long about what we see
Howard Jacobson: Watch baggage handlers at work and you too can succumb to luggage rage
Saturday, 28 June 2008
I watched someone clearing bags manhandling them as if they had done him a personal injury
Howard Jacobson: What makes everyone believe that they have an inalienable right to be 'worth it'?
Saturday, 21 June 2008
It's possible that I feel squeamish about talent contests because I never won one
Howard Jacobson: It's the end of civil liberties as we know it – or that's how some people prefer to think
Saturday, 14 June 2008
What's been done to us to make us dread every new CCTV camera as we dread a nightmare?
Howard Jacobson: When ordering a salt beef sandwich, beware the moral minefield that awaits
Saturday, 7 June 2008
It's a contradiction of Jewish law: the more you eat kosher, the more of a pig you make yourself look
Howard Jacobson: If what we watch or read can move us to compassion, it can move us to sadism too
Saturday, 31 May 2008
There is an unwillingness to believe that our times are morally or intellectually inferior to any other
Howard Jacobson: The first step on the road to wisdom is admitting that you don't know anything
Saturday, 24 May 2008
It is beyond us to balance fairly the rights of an unborn child against those of the mother
Howard Jacobson: Rebel too strongly against seriousness and what do you end up with? Boris Johnson
Saturday, 17 May 2008
He reminds me of a baby. He has the same wet, pouting lip, the same incorrigible naughtiness
Howard Jacobson: If there really is a smear campaign to try to silence the critics of Israel, it isn't working
Saturday, 10 May 2008
Call those who disagree with you ‘witch-hunters’ often enough and they will see you as one in turn
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• Terence Blacker: Why are doctors so oddly thin-skinned?
There will be more grumpiness than usual this week in doctors' surgeries
• Thomas Sutcliffe: Exclusive! Hadrian reveals all!
I thought more than once of Heat magazine and Hello! while walking round the exhibition Hadrian: Empire & Conflict
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