James Walton

Howard Jacobson’s J convinced me that I’d just read a masterpiece

But on reflection is it really imaginable that Britain will have anti-Semitic pogroms within the next few years?

British Jewish author and journalist Howard Jacobson Photo: Hindustan Times via Getty
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