Who dares to “hijack” the Holocaust?
Jonathan Glazer’s abject Oscars speech for The Zone of Interest served to downplay the inhumanity his film so powerfully depicts.
ByHoward Jacobson is a novelist. His memoir “Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings” is published by Jonathan Cape
Jonathan Glazer’s abject Oscars speech for The Zone of Interest served to downplay the inhumanity his film so powerfully depicts.
By Howard JacobsonThe spectacle of genuine horror unfolding in Ukraine throws into perspective our more synthetic outrages.
By Howard JacobsonI didn’t fully understand Jonathan Swift’s epic at nine years old – that was why reading it made me…
By Howard JacobsonMy wife and I take the train to the coast, where we admire those brave enough to be spun upside…
By Howard JacobsonThis is my fault. I tutted at him six months ago for taking up the entire footpath and a…
By Howard JacobsonIs it only because this is a photograph of my mother that I feel protective of it?
By Howard Jacobson“That’s not singing, Jacobson, that’s shouting to music”. With those words my ambition to be a lyric tenor in…
By Howard JacobsonPublication week. My 16th novel. As always I struggle against the impulse to read my reviews, knowing I won’t…
By Howard JacobsonFrom Judas to the Brick Lane mural, how the malicious libel about Jewish greed gripped the global imagination
By Howard Jacobson