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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Howard Jacobson’s Diary: Soho never sleeps – so I escape to see the rides at Brighton Pier
My wife and I take the train to the coast, where we admire those brave enough to be spun upside…
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Howard Jacobson’s Diary: Clashes with Joe the Jogger, forgiving William Cobbett, and a slip into humiliation
This is my fault. I tutted at him six months ago for taking up the entire footpath and a…
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The photo that shaped me: Howard Jacobson on his mother’s eyes
Is it only because this is a photograph of my mother that I feel protective of it?
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The road not taken: Howard Jacobson on his ambition to be a lyric tenor
“That’s not singing, Jacobson, that’s shouting to music”. With those words my ambition to be a lyric tenor in…
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Howard Jacobson’s Diary: The theatre delusion, Labour’s anti-Semitism mess, and why I dodge reviews
Publication week. My 16th novel. As always I struggle against the impulse to read my reviews, knowing I won’t…
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Myth busting: Are Jews actually rich?
From Judas to the Brick Lane mural, how the malicious libel about Jewish greed gripped the global imagination
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Howard Jacobson’s Diary: I turn on the radio, primed for apoplexy, and discover only family entertainment
For one whole half hour I have not seen the faces of those lying, scheming, conniving, despicable scumbags who claim…
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Yes, The Affair has a story – but we watched it for the sex
A box set isn’t an entitlement. You can’t assume that what works well for ten episodes – and The Affair…
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