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

Green heroes

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Green villains

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20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

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