The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
I’d been so looking forward to Harold Jacobson’s The Finkler Question, following its positive response in the British press, and its receipt of the Man Booker Prize, that my disappointment when reading it was overly acute. I’ve thrown
aside my meager attempt to articulate its failings, and direct you instead to James Woods’ succinct and damning review in a recent New Yorker (subscription required).