HOW TO BE A CONSIDERATE ANTISEMITE
Instructions in the art of Hating Nicely
Streetwalking with Howard Jacobson
I have written over twenty books, including seventeen novels, and won the Booker Prize for fiction. Words are my faith, novels my passion, great novelists my paragons of truth. You might think I should get out more. You are right.
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ADIEU ACADEME
It was a nice idea.
THE JEW, THE PELICAN AND THE NAZI
A TRUE STORY
STuCK IN A RuT
THE NEW CABINET IN WAITING…..
I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE AND IT'S FEATHERED
Wonderful news!
THE SAVAGING OF A MODERATE MAN
Streetwalking with Howard Jacobson is a reader-supported publication.
FREE SPEECH IN AN AGE OF HATE SPEECH
As a rule of thumb I trust no one who resorts to free speech as a defence when caught mouthing off the usual poisonous mendacities at a protest or indeed invokes their inexpugnable right to protest in the face of my inexpugnable right to live in quiet and hear only truth.
SHPILKES
BEING THE FIRST IN AN OCCASIONAL SERIES CELEBRATING THE MUSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL APTNESS OF YIDDISH
KINDNESS AND KINK
‘In human relationships.’ wrote Graham Greene, ‘kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.’
THE FALL
Seeing as this a story that begins with a fall, it strikes me as appropriate that I should raise the paywall slightly so that you, too, reader, should experience what film and tv people call jeopardy and other, more callous folk call a joke…