Jason Cowley
Articles by Jason Cowley
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Politics
Blame it on Amis, Barnes and McEwan
- 04 June 2001
British novels no longer bring us "news" of our times
Books
Paperback reader
- 04 June 2001
Diary of a Man in Despair Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen Duckback, 249pp, £6.99 ISBN 0715631004
Books
Eat yourself fitter
- 21 May 2001
The Great Food Gamble John Humphrys Hodder & Stoughton, 306pp, 12.99 ISBN 0340770457
Books
The finest critic of her generation
- 02 April 2001
Appreciation - Jason Cowleyon the life and work of Elizabeth Young, a daring and original reader
Books
Distant voices
- 19 March 2001
A Double Thread: a childhood memoir in Mile End - and beyond John Gross Chatto & Windus, 220pp, £18.99 ISBN 0701163305
Books
The Tiger Woods of literature?
- 29 January 2001
Commentary - Jason Cowley asks if Zadie Smith can ever repeat her first, astonishing success
Politics
Forget cool: it's greedy Britannia now
- 04 December 2000
From Asian Babes to Zeta Jones, ours is an unashamedly decadent society
Books
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
Ideas
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
Books
Commentary - Glittering prize
- 11 September 2000
Jason Cowley, in Zimbabwe, reports on the inaugural Caine Prize for African fiction
