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Sania Mirza
Jason Cowley on the tennis sensation who is drawing scorn from India's Muslim clerics.
New Statesman, October 17th 2005
Ian McEwan
Terror and the UK - He is the closest thing we have to a "national novelist": one who can speak to and for the nation at times of crisis. Ian McEwan profiled by Jason Cowley.
New Statesman, July 18th 2005
Rian Malan
The South African writer Rian Malan grew up in revolt against his colonial inheritance. His first and only book offers vital insights into the white man's experience of apartheid.
New Statesman, March 14th 2005
Kate Bush
With her first single up for a Brit Award and a new album soon to be released, Kate Bush is back in a big way. It's been a long wait, writes Jason Cowley, but she's worth it.
New Statesman, February 7th 2005
Dan Brown
The author of the bestselling Da Vinci Code has tapped into our post-9/11 anxieties and fear of fundamentalism.
New Statesman, December 13th 2004
William Shawcross
Once a model progressive, he is now the royal choice to write the Queen Mother's life and an apologist for war in Iraq.
New Statesman, December 15th 2003
Tom Clancy
He is the most popular novelist on earth, whose images of catastrophe animate the modern American psyche.
New Statesman, September 24th 2001
Zhou Wei Hui
Jason Cowley on Wei Hui, whose novel has been banned and burned in China for being too sexually explicit.
New Statesman, July 23rd 2001
Caprice
She has turned her brightly packaged self into a corporate image fit for a king - or at least a prince.
New Statesman, March 6th 2000
JM Coetzee
The ideal chronicler of the new South Africa, he deserves to make literary history as a double Booker winner.
New Statesman, October 25th 1999
Iris Murdoch
In one of the last interviews with Iris Murdoch, Jason Cowley found her still pondering on the spaces that God left behind.
New Statesman, February 12th 1999
John le Carre
A literary barbarian? Or a writer to whom future generations will turn for insights into our times? By Jason Cowley.
New Statesman, February 5th 1999
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