This weekend, I read the first hundred-odd pages of “The Finkler Question,” by Howard Jacobson. I did this not because I had a premonition that Jacobson’s latest novel would win the 2010 Man Booker ...

British novelist Howard Jacobson was the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for “The Finkler Question.” (I spoke to him about that award here.) Jacobson’s touring now with a novel called “The Might ...

When fast-breaking political events forced British novelist Jacobson ( Peeping Tom ) to put off a trip to Lithuania planned as a search for his Jewish roots, he ...

Howard Jacobson has won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for fiction for his book The Finkler Question. A review that I wrote for Forbes in 2006 of an earlier book of Jacobson's might give the reader some ...

‘I love to make a roomful of middle-aged women laugh’: Howard Jacobson - Heathcliff O'Malley At the age of 81, Howard Jacobson, master of splenetic satire, has written a tender love story. I’d have ...

Originally published 25 years ago in the U.K., this travelogue recounts the author’s time in Australia in the mid-1980s. Jacobsen, a 2010 Booker Award winner Jacobson (for The Finkler Question), ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Something disturbs me about the way Howard Jacobson, the Man Booker Prize winning author of “The Finkler Question,” navigates the rocky road of his fluctuating Jewish identity. The British Jewish ...

Howard Jacobson is a writer and journalist whose novel, “The Finkler Question”, was named winner of the Man Booker Prize in London on Tuesday. Jacobson had previously been considered for the prize in ...

For most New Yorkers, the idea of Jews beyond Israel, New York and New York South (aka Florida) is an annoying complication. For many American Jews, the existence of proud, older, historically ...