Streetwalking with Howard Jacobson

Streetwalking with Howard Jacobson

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WHY BEING 'THE CHOSEN' IS NO FUN
“I know, I know.
 • Howard Jacobson
CALIBAN IN GAZA
‘Our revels now are ended.’ Prospero’s famous last words and we like to think Shakespeare’s too.
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HOW TO CELEBRATE A MASSACRE
A man stopped me in Soho the other day and said, ‘We’re with you.’ Since I don’t look like a Hammas fighter or a student from any London University you…
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HOW TO MUG THE JEWS AND HIJACK THE HOLOCAUST
After decades of querying the numbers of dead Jews and the manner in which they went to their death, Holocaust sceptics of all stripes have made common…
LAWN TENNIS, OR THE FINE ART OF SELF-ABUSE
Decency laws prevent my showing the victim of Daniil Medvedev’s furious assault at the US Open the other day.
 • Howard Jacobson
IT ISN'T THE POOR WHO ENVY THE RICH, IT'S THE RICH WHO ENVY EVERYBODY
Here’s the saddest story.
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PEARLYGATES@%*!25ŽoUch
‘Wrong password, my son.’
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Streetwalking with Howard Jacobson
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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