Words of the Week: Howard Jacobson
From the Unholy podcast: “Howard Jacobson screamed ‘liar’ at the BBC every day for two years. Then he wrote a novel. Howl — hailed as a comic masterpiece — is the first serious post-October 7 novel: the story of a Jewish headmaster in South London who watches the educated world he believed in applaud a massacre and slowly lose his mind. Jacobson joins Yonit Levi and Jonathan Freedland to discuss the ungovernable rage behind the book, why he chose comedy as the vehicle for it, the friends he lost, and the question he and his wife have started asking each other: is it still safe to be here?”
