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Howard Jacobson hates protests. So what does he do to fight antisemitism? Howl

This is an era of protest and, in the Selfridges salt beef bar, Howard Jacobson is talking about placards. He hates them because he is a novelist. “The human body holding a placard is a very ugly sight,” he says. “Even if what was written on the placard was, ‘I’m…

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Howl by Howard Jacobson review – a tragicomic portrait of a Jewish man’s despair

A suburban headteacher navigates antisemitism in Gaza-outraged London in Jacobson’s latest novel

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Sophie Hannah: ‘I gave up on Wuthering Heights three times’

The crime writer on actor Frances Farmer’s life-changing story of survival, her favourite self help and discovering Agatha Christie’s alter ego

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Hopeful or ‘hate-fuelled’? Film of controversial play about Israel gets London premiere

Director says Seven Jewish Children by Caryl Churchill, which provoked fury at its first production in 2009, is a ‘family story’ at heart

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Lee Child and Ozzy Osbourne among those standing against Israel writer boycotts

They signed a letter from Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) in ‘support of freedom of expression and against discriminatory boycotts’.

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Dead children were no props in Gaza

Readers respond to Howard Jacobson’s article about the media coverage of violence in the Middle East

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What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson review – end of the affair

This tale of later-life lovers explores what happens to desire as the body’s powers wane with age

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What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson review – drama that is all in the dialogue

Not a huge amount happens in this tale of illicit fortysomething love, but Jacobson’s writing is so good it hardly matters

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If this is not genocide, what is it?

Readers respond to Howard Jacobson’s article in last week’s Observer

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Letters: on both sides of the Israel-Hamas war, the victims are innocent

Like many, I am historically affected by the atrocities we are witnessing; not as a Jew but as a human being

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The week in TV: Gutsy; Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg; Stuck; The Capture; Arena: James Joyce’s Ulysses

Hillary and Chelsea Clinton seek out inspirational women; Joe Lycett steals Laura Kuenssberg’s maiden show; and The Capture pulls off a rare feat

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Books by women that every man should read: chosen by Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Richard Curtis and more

Studies show men avoid female authors. Ahead of the Women’s prize for fiction, chair of judges Mary Ann Sieghart finds out why – and we ask male authors to redress the balance

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Londoner’s Diary: ‘Colston Four’ lawyers fall out over credit for statue case win

In today’s Diary: Colston lawyer fall out / Sarpong defends BBC from racism accusations / Jacobson’s diffiult mother / Allin-Khan gives cabbie short shrift / A round of applause for Mogg’s nanny

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Mother’s Boy by Howard Jacobson review – a captivatingly melodramatic memoir

The writer’s account of his tortured journey to adulthood is wildly lacking in proportion, and all the better for it

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Mother’s Boy by Howard Jacobson review – a literary titan ill at ease in the world

Jacobson’s intriguing account of his family and formative years details his journey from nomadic lost soul to celebrated novelist

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