Jason Cowley

Articles by Jason Cowley

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Half and half

  • 06 December 2004

The In-Between World of Vikram Lall M G Vassanji Canongate, 439pp, £14.99 ISBN 1841955388

The terror of the unforeseen. In portraying individual lives tethered to the forces of history, Philip Roth's new novel revisits the themes of previous work. But it also reveals an unexpectedly benign and forgiving side, writes Jason Cowley

  • 11 October 2004

The Plot Against America Philip Roth Jonathan Cape, 391pp, £16.99 ISBN 0224074539

Property scandal

  • 20 September 2004
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A few rich people, many of them aristocrats, own 69 per cent of the land in Britain. As a result, house prices are so high, millions can't afford to buy a home. The NS launches a campaign to end this feudal system

We can be heroes

  • 23 August 2004

George Orwell was troubled by the way in which boys' weeklies evaded the problems of contemporary society, seeing it as a form of covert political control. But we didn't read comics for realism, writes Jason Cowley. We read them to be inspired

The long view

  • 26 July 2004

Brief Lives W F Deedes Macmillan, 212pp, £12.99 ISBN 1405040858

Sport - Jason Cowley laments a "cuppy" summer

  • 26 July 2004

This was to have been a "golden" summer. Instead, it's been rather cuppy

Sport - Jason Cowley finds British sports writing is mediocre

  • 19 July 2004

British sports writing is mediocre, full of cliche and lacking in humour

Sport - Jason Cowley considers the trouble with tennis

  • 12 July 2004

Tennis in Britain is not a game at all. It's just a fortnight

Sport - Jason Cowley on a goalie who ran off with a barmaid

  • 07 June 2004

The champagne-swilling goalkeeper who ran off with a barmaid

Sport - Jason Cowley remembers supporting West Germany

  • 31 May 2004

To my parents' disgust, I once supported West Germany's football team

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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