The anti-Baillie Gifford mob wants to police art. Writers must not give in
In cutting ties with the firm, literary festivals have fallen prey to the worst sort of playground bully.
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Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson is a novelist. His memoir “Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings” is published by Jonathan Cape
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Howard Jacobson’s Diary: Mourners in Westminster, sweet treats in Soho, and shedding a tear for the Queen
You go out walking, hear a bell toll, read a soppy message on a bunch of roses and the…
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Howard Jacobson’s Diary: Home-front warriors and Francis Bacon’s waning shock value
The spectacle of genuine horror unfolding in Ukraine throws into perspective our more synthetic outrages.
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Howard Jacobson: How Gulliver’s Travels gave me a taste for satire
I didn’t fully understand Jonathan Swift’s epic at nine years old – that was why reading it made me…
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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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