Nicholas Lezard | The New York Review of Books

Nicholas Lezard

Nicholas Lezard is a writer and critic who lives in Scotland. He wrote a weekly column for The Guardian’s book pages for twenty years, was the literary editor of the Modern Review, and was, for ten years, the Independent on Sunday’s radio critic; he currently writes the “Down and Out” column for the New Statesman. He is the author of The Nolympics: One Man’s Struggle Against Sporting Hysteria (2012), and a memoir, Bitter Experience Has Taught Me (2013). November 2018

On Being a Jew-ish Schoolboy

I find myself in the strange position of being someone who is becoming very personally alarmed at anti-Semitism without actually being Jewish. If someone like me, with only the haziest notion of what the Torah or the Talmud are, can be such a target, I wonder at how much hatred is out there, waiting to boil over again.

November 21, 2018