Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like It

The winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize, Howard Jacobson, brims with life in this selection of his Independent columns. From the unusual disposal of his father-in-law’s ashes and the cultural wasteland of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the melancholy sensuality of Leonard Cohen and desolation of Wagner’s tragedies, Jacobson writes with all the thunder and joy of a man possessed.