Howard Jacobson's Books
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The Act of LoveIn a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece, Kalooki Nights, acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights on...Read More
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Kalooki NightsMax Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British...Read More
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Times Online, November 8, 2009
...literature’s most neglected novel, conducted by the Open Book programme presented by Mariella Frostrup on Radio 4. Howard Jacobson and Joanna Trollope were among ten authors who lobbied for their forgotten classic on the programme, prompting thousands...
The Independent, November 6, 2009
...The rush to rescue Jordan's false breasts from Amis's teeth is more than gallantry Close Doesn't matter where you look at the moment, at low culture or at high, the issue is the inability of the public to distinguish good from bad. Better dancers get...
Guardian.co.uk, November 4, 2009
...novelist selects the novels which best anatomise the 'dark, interior stickiness' of a passion peculiarly well-suited to literature Howard Jacobson is the author of 10 novels, including The Very Model of a Man, The Mighty Walzer and Kalooki Nights. He...
Guardian.co.uk, November 4, 2009
...novelist selects the novels which best anatomise the 'dark, interior stickiness' of a passion peculiarly well-suited to literature Howard Jacobson is the author of 10 novels, including The Very Model of a Man, The Mighty Walzer and Kalooki Nights. He...
Times Online, October 16, 2009
...about Prince Rasselas?s doomed search for happiness is Johnson?s only work of prose fiction Proposed by Howard Jacobson, novelist and cultural critic The Price of Salt (Carol) (1952) by Patricia Highsmith Her second novel, which was published under...
Times Online, October 16, 2009
...It is a story about the discovery of a magical Stone of Suleiman that delves into the supernatural. Howard Jacobson alights on 1759 for his lost classic ? The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson, the great man of letters....
Guardian Unlimited, October 9, 2009
...doubt the evidence of our own eyes. In this, it could be offered as an interesting companion to Howard Jacobson's The Act of Love (recommended here a few weeks ago). But tie it into the author's life ? consider it as an act of expiation ? and...
Observer, October 3, 2009
...So: no crime, sagas, comedy or thrillers. John le Carré's Smiley books or the later novels of Howard Jacobson are highlights of postwar fiction, yet you will not find The Honourable Schoolboy or The Mighty Walzer on any Booker shortlist. While the...
The Independent, September 26, 2009
...The final countdown, 20-1 3 The funniest of your fails 4 The ten most notorious female criminals 5 Howard Jacobson: It doesn't matter if there's a recession or not, because Armageddon is on its way 6 Anger as Ball bounced from ITV 7 Stars who went back...
Observer, August 30, 2009
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Times Online, August 28, 2009
...How you get on with Howard Jacobson?s narrator, and whether you want to be trapped for 300 pages inside his fetid one-track mind, rather depends on whether you agree with his assertion that ?no man...
The Independent, May 29, 2009
...Been a funny old week for poetry. Whatever night you turned your telly on there was someone reciting Milton on the Millennium Bridge, or quoting John Donne in the snow outside St Paul's Cathedral, unless you happened to have gone straight to a news...
Guardian Unlimited, May 29, 2009
...Fraction of the Whole. He joins a roster of former winners that includes Marina Lewycka, DBC Pierre and Howard Jacobson...
Birmingham Post, May 28, 2009
...An addiction to curry helped acclaimed author Howard Jacobson to get his creative juices flowing, writes Lorne Jackson. The dreaming spires of academia have fired the souls of many a budding author. Understandably so. What could be more...
The Independent, May 22, 2009
...God, I love this country. I am not saying that to cheer myself up in a time of national disgrace. It's just that sometimes you go away and when you come back you realise in a flash how wonderful this place is. The green of an English field can do it....
The Independent, May 22, 2009
...God, I love this country. I am not saying that to cheer myself up in a time of national disgrace. It's just that sometimes you go away and when you come back you realise in a flash how wonderful this place is. The green of an English field can do it....
Guardian Unlimited, May 20, 2009
...ll be happily quartered in his field and won't be coming to Hay,' said Campbell. 'I remember Howard Jacobson, the first winner, saying that in all his career as a writer, he never thought as a good Jew that he'd be given a pig, while DBC Pierre...
The Independent, April 4, 2009
...I died on stage with Graham Swift, who snapped 'no' five times in a row to my questions. Howard Jacobson ticked me off for introducing him as a comic writer. But the kindly Martin Amis helped me rearrange the furniture when the mics weren't close enough....
The Independent, April 4, 2009
...I died on stage with Graham Swift, who snapped 'no' five times in a row to my questions. Howard Jacobson ticked me off for introducing him as a comic writer. But the kindly Martin Amis helped me rearrange the furniture when the mics weren't close enough....
The Independent, March 28, 2009
...Been trying all week to decide whether I think the world is coming to an end or not. Polar bears are shrinking that's not a good sign. Salamanders are disappearing faster than jobs. There are no returns to be had on our modest savings. Vigilantes are...
The Independent, March 27, 2009
...Those who say we misplace the threat of terror are committing us all to suicide Share Been trying all week to decide whether I think the world is coming to an end or not. Polar bears are shrinking ? that's not a good sign. Salamanders are disappearing...
Globe and Mail, March 27, 2009
...his own dread, he created a world in which dread couldn't possibly exist. Felix Quinn, hero of Howard Jacobson's wonderful new novel, is an Andy Kaufman of the heart. Jilted in early adolescence by a movie date, he feels compelled as an adult to re-enact...
Guardian Unlimited, March 25, 2009
...fascist' party in Israel, yet call Hamas 'pragmatic', we must ask what double standards are in operation Why Howard Jacobson is wrong 24 Feb 2009: Jacqueline Rose: By seeking to label criticism of Israel in Caryl Churchill's play as 'antisemitic', his...
Toronto Star Online, March 15, 2009
...by Howard Jacobson Penguin Canada, 308 pages, $24 N The italics, intended to emphasize the dead seriousness of the proposition, are his. He is Felix Quinn, an antiquarian bookseller in London whose...
Newsday, March 15, 2009
...suburban despair - a gifted writer who struggled with homosexual desires and alcoholism. THE ACT OF LOVE, by Howard Jacobson (Simon & Schuster, $25). A new novel, by the author of the Booker Prize nominee 'Kalooki Nights,' about a London bookseller who...
The Independent, March 10, 2009
...else can you enjoy award-winning writers such as Robert Fisk, Matthew Norman,Steve Richards, Janet Street-Porter, Deborah Orr, Howard Jacobson, Alex James, James Lawton and John Walsh for less than half the price of a small latte? Or less than youd pay...
Guardian Unlimited, January 19, 2009
...Trains is less a documentary about Weimar life and more of a masterpiece in comic portraiture. Philip Oltermann Howard Jacobson: The Mighty Walzer (1999) Teenage table tennis champion Oliver Walzer knows a lot about ping-pong, but he's yet to learn how...
Jewish Chronicle, January 16, 2009
...by the Jewish Chronicle If you liked Jacobson on Jesus� HOW CAN WE HELP?  If you enjoyed Howard Jacobson's Channel Four outing on Sunday to reclaim the Jewish Jesus (see his JC article), then why not take a look at Modern Jews Engage the New...
Jewish Chronicle, January 10, 2009
...contemporary examples of Jewish writers engaging with sexual themes, such as Naomi Alderman, Linda Grant, David Baddiel and Howard Jacobson. â??Who would have thought we would have a book about lesbianism within the Orthodox community?â? he...
Guardian Unlimited, January 9, 2009
...You're not even familiar with my work ? get outta town, asshole!' But that's nothing on Howard Jacobson. I spent a summer discovering his novels during my waking hours and bumping into him in my sleep. I'd see him in a local restaurant and tell him...
Guardian Unlimited, December 27, 2008
...of a group identity about the writers living in Birmingham themselves. Manchester, in contrast, seems more scattered - Howard Jacobson, Sophie Hannah and Melvyn Burgess - no group identity there. And while Philip Hensher's most recent novel, The Northern...
The Times, December 26, 2008
...he was: the source of endless curiosity and amusement, in life as well as in his plays. As Howard Jacobson once said in a Cheltenham lecture on comic writing: ?What is Pinter, if he is not comic?? Finding Pinter himself in the green room moments...
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk, October 19, 2009
...I can do a bit better on next week's five titles (although I'm not sure that Howard Jacobson's pick of Samuel Johnson's Rasselas or Michael Morpurgo's choice of Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose are particularly neglected). Also up for discussion are AJA...
...his thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth we, September 29, 2009
...Peter Drayton Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites, 2nd Edition Louis Rosenfeld Redback Howard Jacobson Statistics: Principles and Methods (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) Richard A. Johnson The...
Nothingandall, August 23, 2009
...Solomon Islands . Japanese aircraft carrier Ryuho is sunk. 1942 - Max Cleland was born. American politician. 1942 - Howard Jacobson was born. British novelist and newspaper columnist. 1943 - John Cipollina was born (d. 29 May 1989). American musician,...
Paper Cuts, May 28, 2009
...body, gets a book of his own — in a manner of speaking. Felix Quinn, the narrator of Howard Jacobson’s “Act of Love” and a prisoner of Candaulean obsession, does the king one better and arranges a lover for his own wife. Felix — an Oxford...
News | Mail Online, April 25, 2009
...be next BEST OF SATURDAY'S PAPERS MATTHEW PARRIS: Cameron must put himself in sharper focus HOWARD JACOBSON: Why should Susan Boyle have to curry favour with this squalid culture? ANDREW GRICE: The moment that finally cost Labour the general...
BrontëBlog, April 4, 2009
...in late middle age before publishing any verse. ( John Boland ) Another book review with a Brontë reference is Howard Jacobson's Act of Love reviewed in the St Peterburg Times : Jacobson's Marius is a showboating Heathcliff wanna-be, a Hamlet manque, an...
Shelfari, March 31, 2009
...and his snapshots of like-minded contemporaries." Globe and Mail : Cynthia McDonald on The Act of Love by Howard Jacobson: "The best thing about this novel "” and there are so many good things "” is that it doesn't discount the wan little definition...
Jewish Book Council Blog, January 30, 2009
...March Laish (Aharon Appelfeld) March American Jewish Fiction: A JPS Guide (Josh Lambert) March The Act of Love (Howard Jacobson) March Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Power (Elliot N. Dorff and Louis E. Newman) March All Other Nights (Dara Horn) April...
