Kevin Jackson

Articles by Kevin Jackson

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There will be blood

  • 29 January 2009

The immense success of Twilight, both the book and film, proves the vampire genre is still as potent as ever. How did Dracula and his brethren become such important modern myths and staples of popular culture?

Being earnest

  • 22 January 2009

Reborn: Early Diaries (1947-1964) Susan Sontag Hamish Hamilton, 336pp, £16.99

My chemical romance

  • 09 October 2008

The Age of Wonder Richard Holmes HarperPress, 386pp, £25

Endless curiosity

  • 03 July 2008

W H Auden: Prose, Volume III (1949-1955) Edited by Edward Mendelson Faber & Faber, 779pp, £40

How comics grew up (and so did I)

  • 06 March 2008

They were once deplored by parents and teachers as moronic, trashy and culpably American. Today superhero comics are considered a serious art form.

Saint or charlatan?

  • 31 January 2008
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In the 1920s Marcus Garvey rose from obscurity to become the most famous black man on the planet. So why has the memory of this titanic figure faded?

Grand designs

  • 03 April 2006

The visionary architect Joseph Gandy was hailed as a genius during his lifetime, but he failed to attract patrons and few of his schemes were ever realised. If they had been, writes Kevin Jackson, London might look rather different today

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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