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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

In Man Booker Prize–winner (for The Finkler Question) Jacobson’s 2002 novel, only now being released in the U.S., Marvin Kreitman and Charlie Merriweather, friends for 20 years, meet once a week for ...

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 ...

When it was recently announced that Howard Jacobson won Britain's prestigious Man Booker Prize for his comic novel "The Finkler Question," the common refrain was "It's about time." Twice long-listed ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- We now know the identity of a suspect who led police on a wild chase through Philadelphia and Montgomery County Monday night. Forty-seven-year-old Howard Jacobson is known by ...

Early in Howard Jacobson's novel, The Finkler Question, protagonist Julian Treslove is mugged late one night in London near Regent's Park. His assailant slams Treslove so hard against the window of a ...

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 ...