Although Howard Jacobson's latest novel is vastly unlike his previous comic works, it just may be his masterpiece

A relentlessly hostile critic of Israel, Oxfam are destroying the second-hand book trade in the UK

That Howard Jacobson and V. S. Naipaul are non-members of the London literary establishment does them credit

Howard Jacobson could only have produced his attack on anti-Zionism in The Finkler Question as a book. I don't mean that as a novelist he was highly unlikely to write it as anything else, but that the book trade provides the last,