The author, one of the most celebrated in the U.K. and an outspoken liberal Zionist, has plenty to be anxious about these days. But Jacobson, one of the most celebrated authors in the United ...

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 accepted an offer from the BBC to ...

A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid's initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In ...

The writer Howard Jacobson remembers his mother, who died this month, as if she chose to slip away while everyone focused on the pandemic. My mother died on 4 May. Not of Covid-19. Two days before ...