Jason Cowley
Articles by Jason Cowley
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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
Books
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
Society
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
Politics
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
