Unaccustomed Earth: Jhumpa Lahiri Lahiri is presently probably the most influential writer of fiction in America. Financial Times, June 2008 If they build it, you will come Dubai wants to be the ultimate sporting city. And, says Jason Cowley, it's not such a ridiculous idea. The Observer, May 4th 2008 A shot rang out ... Brutal and spare, Cormac McCarthy's work is also full of beauty and love. He is one of the greatest living novelists, argues Jason Cowley. The Guardian, January 12th 2008 When a son's thoughts turn to murder For years, Charles Hills was a figure in London literary circles. But what drove him to the brink of murder? His friend, Jason Cowley, traces the story of Hills's mental and spiritual decline, from gifted youth to Oxford student and finally to his cell in Belmarsh prison. The Observer, February 3rd 2008 Editor's Letter [Granta] had vitality and was engaging with the present moment in ways that so many other British publications were not. It had none of the parochialism, self-satisfaction and introversion one would have expected of a literary magazine. Granta, 101, Spring 2008 Granta in the Press Links to reviews of Granta 101. Granta, 101, Spring 2008     An archive of selected articles by the journalist, columnist and critic, Jason Cowley. Other articles can be found under the relevant section headings.

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