Jews Again Long Shots for Lit Nobel

Syrian poet Adonis favored; Roth at 25:1

Canadian Jew Pick Scores Man Booker Longlist

‘Far to Go’ tells of Czech Jews in the 1930s

Sundown: We Can Talk About It Now?

Plus, a dispatch from the flotilla, the properly sized bagel, and more

Sundown: Palestine Can Be Vetoed

Plus, Winehouse’s life imitates her art, and more

Paddle Tale

In The Mighty Walzer, Howard Jacobson serves up not just the greatest ping-pong novel ever written but a rollicking portrait of mid-century Jewish Manchester

Humorous? Yes. Tragic? Definitely.

An evening with Howard Jacobson

The Unbearable Dumbness of Dreidel

How does this game possibly make any sense?

Daybreak: Iranian Missiles Aren’t All That

Plus Howard Jacobson’s must-read on Hanukkah, and more in the news

Jacobson’s Politics and England’s Jews

Intellectual skywriting with James Wood, Harold Bloom, and more!

All The News That’s Fit To Print After the Fact

The ‘Times’ literally catches up with Howard Jacobson