A suburban headteacher navigates antisemitism in Gaza-outraged London in Jacobson’s latest novel A suburban headteacher navigates antisemitism in Gaza-outraged London in Jacobson’s latest novel H oward Jacobson writes characters at their wits’ end; those characters are usually men, and those men are usually Jewish. Additionally, and problematically for both them and everyone around them, their collective wits are capacious: easily enlarged to allow idiosyncrasy to bloom into neurosis,