"I am convinced, " says Jake Silkstone, the hypochondriac narrator of Clive Sinclair's still provocative novel, "that if Rabbi Nathan hadn't tried to rape Helga, our German au pair, during the course of my barmitzvah celebrations ...
Happily married to Sophie, a successful travel agent, film lecturer Jonah Isaacson has his life turned upside down when he has an affair with Stella, a makeup artist who literally turns him into a human time bomb with an airline ticket to Jerusalem...
Opening with a fight between the Azrael, the Angel of Death, and Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies, for the soul of the great writer August Strindberg. Beelzebub wins and Strindberg, dead in 1912 is brought back to life in 1961 to become the lover of Mrs ...
Accept Clive Sinclair's invitation, and you will embark upon an expedition led by none other than Odysseus, still desperately seeking Penelope. You will cross paths with the Lone Ranger, with Wyatt Earp, the most famous lawman of them all, and his vo...
From the author of Meet the Wife, a gripping account of one man's search for the real wild west . . . Today's Wild West is not what it was, though it wishes that it were. The old certainties are gone, leaving only questions -- but can anyone separate...
Clive Sinclair's first collection of stories won the Somerset Maugham Award. His second was short-listed for the inaugural Dylan Thomas Award. His third won both the PEN Silver Pen, and the Jewish Quarterly Award. This is his fourth. The new stor...
Tales of America, adultery, football, incest, love, paranoia, sadism and Zionism.... Wickedly funny these stories may be, but heartless they are not. Disturbing images abound; like the loving family that feasts upon living butterflies; and other imag...
Since his first public appearance in the late 1590s, Shylock has been synonymous with antisemitism. Many of his bon mots remain common currency among Jew-haters; among them "3000 ducats" and the immortal "pound of flesh". But Shakespe...