The reaction to a rescinded European literary award exposes the hypocrisy of cultural boycotts
Slip sliding away, in an excerpt from the Booker Prize winner’s latest comic novel
How Sefton Goldberg saved my life
A small act of resistance in the middle of Soho at lunchtime
At 100, the U.K.’s greatest Jewish celebrity tabloid writer would rather dance with Sophia Loren
Or, how the Jews reconquered London
From one winner to another
Howard Jacobson’s clever and entertaining retelling of Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’ furthers his reputation as one of the finest Jewish writers working today
In the first of a five-part series on growing anti-Semitism in the U.K., Howard Jacobson, the literary voice of British Jewry
New novels answer Irving Howe’s question: Can we accept aesthetic pleasure in a book about the Shoah?
Former winner Howard Jacobson also in the running for literary award
Is Jewish rebellion really a form of submission? Two new novels and one political critic examine apostasy.
Peter and Martine Halban run England’s most cosmopolitan and finely curated Jewish and Middle Eastern-themed literary press
The Tattler: TV chef Nigella Lawson, tabloid fodder after a public dust-up with art-mogul ad-man hubby Charles Saatchi, is not alone
An excerpt from the original Tablet Kindle Single ‘The Swag Man,’ by the Man Booker Prize-winner, available from Amazon.com today
If there were such a thing as a perfect Jewish joke, it might just be ‘Dayenu,’ the Passover punch line that is never enough
Syrian poet Adonis favored; Roth at 25:1
‘Far to Go’ tells of Czech Jews in the 1930s