Slip sliding away, in an excerpt from the Booker Prize winner’s latest comic novel
Lift up your voice and sing, kosher soul
From one winner to another
The Israeli author and ‘conscience of his nation’ won for his novel A Horse Walks Into a Bar
Former winner Howard Jacobson also in the running for literary award
In To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, an atheist dentist seeks Jewish community
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
A dispute between novelist Alan Hollinghurst and author Daniel Mendelsohn revives a history of sensitivity to British stereotypes about Jews
‘Far to Go’ tells of Czech Jews in the 1930s
The first American and Jew to win international award is lambasted by one judge
An evening with Howard Jacobson
Plus, Man Booker International finalists are announced, and more in the news
The ‘Times’ literally catches up with Howard Jacobson
The Judeophilic Nobel laureate, and more
Novelist defeats favorites McCarthy, Carey
Howard Jacobson is the underdog but our favorite
The Booker Prize winner profiles Hardbat ping-pong champ Marty Reisman, who never lost his taste for winning
