Best of the Spectator
The Book Club: Howard Jacobson
Mar 19, 2026
· 38m
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson, whose new novel <em>Howl</em> emerges from his rage and despair at the response to the 7 October massacre. He tells me what the novel can do that journalism can’t, why being funny is essential even in the darkest times, and why Zack Polanski isn’t the man he used to be. <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more …
Denna episod har inte transkriberats ännu
Använd STT.ai för att transkribera denna episod med AI. Få exakt text med högtalardetektering, tidsstämpel och export i flera format.
Högtalardetektering
Tidstämpel på ordnivå
Export som SRT, TXT, JSON