Jason Cowley

Articles by Jason Cowley

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The Village is missing the Jersey girls

  • 22 April 2002

Jason Cowley finds that New York has only half recovered from the trauma of 11 September

Paperback reader

  • 22 April 2002

The Shadow of the Sun: my African life Ryszard Kapuscinski Penguin, 325pp, £7.99 ISBN 0140292624

Commentary - Literature in the secret garden

  • 04 March 2002

Jason Cowley on "an intimate jewel of a place" where readers meet writers

Paperback reader

  • 11 February 2002

Beneath Black Stars: contemporary Austrian fiction Ed. Martin Chalmers Serpent's Tail, 256pp, £9 ISBN 185242379X

No reputation is more than snowfall

  • 07 January 2002

Jason Cowley on the new year in books

The sense of an ending. "The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions - to destroy." Henrik Ibsen's words have a compelling resonance today as writers continue to grapple with the long, dislocating aftermath of 11 September

  • 17 December 2001

The True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey Faber and Faber, £16.99 ISBN 0571192165

Still life in mobile homes. Modern travel writing is in crisis, too often no more than an indulgence of ego. But the books of Helena Drysdale have a rare difference. Jason Cowley explains

  • 19 November 2001

Mother Tongues: travels through tribal Europe Helena Drysdale Picador, 401pp, £16.99 ISBN 0330372807

Paperback reader

  • 12 November 2001

On Histories and Stories A S Byatt Vintage, 196pp, £7.99 ISBN 0099283832

Paperback reader

  • 29 October 2001

The German Trauma: experience and reflections 1938-2001 Gitta Sereny Penguin, 383pp, £8.99 ISBN 0140292632

The New Statesman Essay - Forward, to the union of humanity

  • 15 October 2001

War on Terror - Two centuries ago, the great philosopher Immanuel Kant also envisaged a world community. Jason Cowley welcomes a neo-Kantian in Downing Street

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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