Jason Cowley
Articles by Jason Cowley
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Books
Half and half
- 06 December 2004
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall M G Vassanji Canongate, 439pp, £14.99 ISBN 1841955388
Books
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
Society
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
Culture
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
Sport
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
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
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
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
Sport - Jason Cowley remembers supporting West Germany
- 31 May 2004
To my parents' disgust, I once supported West Germany's football team
