Writing
fromwww.theguardian.com
10 hours agoHowl by Howard Jacobson review a tragicomic portrait of a Jewish man's despair
Howard Jacobson's novel Howl depicts a British Jewish headteacher experiencing mental dissolution triggered by the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, exploring dormant anger and guilt through exhaustive disputation characteristic of Jacobson's neurotic male protagonists.