Kevin Jackson
Articles by Kevin Jackson
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Books
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?
Books
Being earnest
- 22 January 2009
Reborn: Early Diaries (1947-1964) Susan Sontag Hamish Hamilton, 336pp, £16.99
Politics
Endless curiosity
- 03 July 2008
W H Auden: Prose, Volume III (1949-1955) Edited by Edward Mendelson Faber & Faber, 779pp, £40
Books
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.
Books
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?
Culture
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
