Jason Cowley

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The month of cherry blossom

  • 21 August 2006

Elegiac and exquisite, the fictions of Yasunari Kawabata were among the most memorable of the 20th century. Jason Cowley on a writer who knew the value of silence

The rebranding of Germany

  • 03 July 2006

It was hot and I was late. There was a little tussle and I was soon in the company of the German military. So not arrested exactly, but not entirely innocent, either

Heroes of our time - the top 50

  • 22 May 2006
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Inspirational - yet worlds apart: there was no doubt about the victor in our readers' survey to find the heroes of our time. But who could have predicted such strong support for Margaret Thatcher and the Queen? Jason Cowley on the winners and losers

Heroes of our time

  • 03 April 2006
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Where are the great men and women who are changing the world for the better? Who are they? The New Statesman invites you, the reader, to nominate your modern hero. Over the next few weeks some familiar names will give their thoughts, while Jason Cowley explains what our search is all about. Ultimately, however, it’s up to you, so get voting . . .

South-west sound

  • 27 March 2006

Music - Jason Cowley traces the career of the troubled, unique collective that changed the face of British dance music

Tainted love. For writers of colonial fiction, Africa held a dark erotic attraction, even if the message underlying their work was that Europeans have no place there. By Jason Cowley

  • 30 January 2006

Tropic Moon
Georges Simenon (translated by Marc Romano) New York Review Books, 133pp, £6.99
ISBN 159017111X

NS Man of the year - Jose Mourinho

  • 19 December 2005

Fiction - Existentialist crisis

  • 07 November 2005

The Possibility of an Island
Michel Houellebecq Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 345pp, £12.99
ISBN 0297850989

Sania Mirza

  • 17 October 2005
  • 1 comment

10 people - Jason Cowley on the tennis sensation who is drawing scorn from india's muslim clerics

The gentleman's game

  • 15 August 2005

Observations on the Ashes

Vince Cable

The bankers' escape

The bankers cannot believe their luck

China

The next superpower

A new sun rises in the east

Sweden

Death of a dream

The death of a dream

James Macintyre

Brown's PR gamble

Brown’s PR gamble

John Pilger

Travel and tragedy

Back to the point of departure

Iran

Hidden meanings

Hidden meanings

John Bercow

Speaker's secrets

Secrets of the Speaker

Film review

Shirin

Movies, minus the popcorn

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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