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Howard Jacobson

January 2024

  • Howard Jacobson shot in Tenerife in January 2022 for Saturday magazine by Ruben Plasencia

    What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson review – end of the affair

  • Howard Jacobson sitting at home in London beside a window

    What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson review – drama that is all in the dialogue

March 2022

  • Howard Jacobson.

    Mother’s Boy by Howard Jacobson review – a captivatingly melodramatic memoir

    The writer’s account of his tortured journey to adulthood is wildly lacking in proportion, and all the better for it

February 2022

  • Howard Jacobson in Grantchester, 1963.

    Observer book of the week
    Mother’s Boy by Howard Jacobson review – a literary titan ill at ease in the world

  • Howard Jacobson, photographed last month.

    Howard Jacobson: ‘I’m my mother’s son, which was terrible news for my father’

June 2020

  • Simon Schama, one of the prominent signatories of the letter condemning Israel’s West Bank plans.

    Israel's West Bank plans condemned by leading British Jewish figures

    Simon Schama and Sir Malcolm Rifkind among those warning that annexation ‘would have grave consequences’ for Palestinians

January 2020

  • ‘Today it’s a tourist destination’ … the gates of Auschwitz concentration camp.

    Howard Jacobson: 'A feelgood Holocaust exploits the dead and demeans the living'

    It once felt impious just to mention Auschwitz. Now, 75 years after its liberation, the death camp has spawned a literary subgenre – and Hitler is in Oscar-nominated comedy Jojo Rabbit. Are we betraying the dead?

August 2019

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    The Guardian Books podcast
    Does 'the English canon' still shape what we read? – books podcast

    Writers including Penelope Lively, Caryl Philips, Howard Jacobson and Yomi Sode explore how this idea has changed over time

July 2019

  • Howard Jacobson photographed at his home in Central London. Howard Eric Jacobson is a British novelist and journalist. He is known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters. He is a Man Booker Prize winner for his book "The Finkler Question".

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Iris Murdoch at 100 and Howard Jacobson on humour and shame – books podcast

    On this week’s show, we talk to Jacobson about his new novel, and discuss the compelling career of Murdoch
  • Howard Jacobson photographed at his home in Central London. Howard Eric Jacobson is a British novelist and journalist. He is known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters. He is a Man Booker Prize winner for his book "The Finkler Question".

    Live a Little by Howard Jacobson review – wonderful

    Love blossoms between two London ninetysomethings in this beautifully observed comic novel
  • Howard Jacobson.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Howard Jacobson’s cultural highlights

    The novelist on John Malkovich’s latest stage foray, what he’d like printed on a T-shirt and the allure of mince and potatoes

June 2019

  • Man hailing a taxi on a New York street

    Book of the day
    Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner review – smart, funny story of love and sex

  • Howard Jacobson.

    Book of the day
    Live a Little by Howard Jacobson review – the torments of desire

July 2018

  • Howard Jacobson

    'The problem is the reader': Howard Jacobson says the novel is not dead

    Writer laments short attention spans and decline of nuanced criticism in age of social media

June 2018

  • Clockwise from top left: Hilary Mantel, Marlon James, Anne Enright, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood and Julian Barnes.

    What it is like to win the Booker prize, by Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Peter Carey and more

    As the Man Booker prize turns 50 and readers vote for their favourite ever recipient, novelists reveal the highs (and lows) of winning ‘the Oscar’ of the literary world

April 2018

  • Howard Jacobson

    Howard Jacobson: ‘Jews know what antisemitism is and what it isn’t. To invent it would be a sacrilege’

    I still think Britain is a fine country to be a Jew in. But it is as though I now live in the shadow of an unseen enemy

March 2018

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    Made in ...
    Howard Jacobson on Manchester: ‘I lack its passion for football and Noel Gallagher’

    The author celebrates the mirth and raucousness of the city that shaped him, and explains why he feels like a fraud when he calls himself Mancunian

January 2018

  • Howard Jacobson

    Howard Jacobson's diary
    The Meyerowitz Stories is an excruciating watch if you aspire to make great art

    Howard Jacobson
  • Howard Jacobson

    Howard Jacobson's diary
    Let no one tell you that Manchester is a long way from Sicily

    Howard Jacobson

December 2017

  • Howard Jacobson

    Howard Jacobson's diary
    The Crown has taught me how to behave if I ever sit next to the Queen for dinner

    Howard Jacobson
    Don’t tweet or email when you think the Queen isn’t looking, and in particular don’t tweet or email her
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