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Jason Cowley

Articles by Jason Cowley

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How the dead live. More and more novelists are appropriating real-life characters and the events of history for fictional ends. Why? Jason Cowley on the art of literary grave-robbing

  • 04 December 2000

On Histories and Stories: selected essays
A S Byatt Chatto & Windus, 196pp, £16.99
ISBN 070116946X

The New Statesman Essay - The beginning of the end

  • 30 October 2000

In 1977, the forces of Conservatism and punk were agitating to transform Britain

Commentary - Glittering prize

  • 11 September 2000

Jason Cowley, in Zimbabwe, reports on the inaugural Caine Prize for African fiction

The duty of genius. A misogynist and anti-Semite, the philosopher Otto Weininger was obsessed by decay. Jason Cowley on the brief life and work of a disturbed icon of fin-de-siecle Vienna

  • 21 August 2000

Otto Weininger: Sex, Science and Self in Imperial Vienna
Chandak Sengoopta University of Chicago Press, 248pp, £18.50
ISBN 0226748677

The New Statesman Profile - The English Friday night

  • 10 July 2000

In an old market town, young men vomit on their own shoes and shout "big tits" at the passing girls. The English Friday night profiled

Still haunted by the ghosts of '66

  • 03 July 2000

That World Cup win and that swinging summer created a benchmark against which we will always be measured, and always found wanting

Shoot-out

  • 26 June 2000

On Penalties
Andrew Anthony Yellow Jersey, 150pp, £10
ISBN 0224059947

Last man

  • 19 June 2000

The Broken Estate
James Wood Vintage, 318pp, £12.50
ISBN 0712665579

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