The transporting effects of plane reading, how not to adapt Dickens, and why I care only for novels
I rarely see anything on television or in the cinema as adventurous as what can be found in a book.
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I rarely see anything on television or in the cinema as adventurous as what can be found in a book.
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 JacobsonFor one whole half hour I have not seen the faces of those lying, scheming, conniving, despicable scumbags who claim…
By Howard JacobsonA box set isn’t an entitlement. You can’t assume that what works well for ten episodes – and The Affair…
By Howard Jacobson