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[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

Books of the Year
Collected New Statesman articles 1999-2007.
New Statesman, December 2007

Comment: A cosy circle of critics? Nonsense
Last week, the chairman of the Booker Prize judges complained about the nepotistic world of book reviews. But he missed a far greater problem besetting the modern publishing industry.
The Observer, October 21st 2007

Between the Lines
I thought of the writers by whom I would most like to read a new novel - Roth, JM Coetzee, Ian McEwan, Milan Kundera, Zadie Smith - I never thought of [Cormac] McCarthy. Then I read The Road, his latest, and astounding, novel.
Prospect, June 2007

Down under, going Sideways
A former hippy hangout in a remote corner of Western Australia, Margaret River has matured into a charming enclave of fine wines and food.
The Observer, April 15th 2007

The comfort of strangers
There is something far too conventional about the way books are reviewed and discussed in our newspapers and cultural magazines.
Prospect, December 2006

Between the lines
Robert Harris may be one of Britain's best rewarded popular novelists, but he remains a victim of literary snobbery, or so he thinks.
Prospect, October 2006

Heroes of our time
A hero of our time: where indeed shall we find one?
New Statesman, April 3rd 2006

The Jason Cowley Column
I have seldom met a writer who has been satisfied with a film adaptation of one of his or her novels or indeed a reader who feels that a favourite book has been well served by its transition from page to screen.
www.waterstones.co.uk, March 2006

On Pleasure
For me... pleasure is increasingly less about a heightening of self through intoxication, as I used to think, than a kind of release from self.
The Observer, February 12th 2006

The Jason Cowley Column
In the early weeks of February as our high street shops become cluttered with the paraphernalia and ephemera of the love industry, we are forced, often reluctantly, to confront the question of love.
www.waterstones.co.uk, February 2006

The Jason Cowley Column
Jason Cowley on how some novelists want to be characters in their own books.
www.waterstones.co.uk, October 2005

Music: a journey from the centre of planet pop to the margins of the avant garde
In March 2005, the journalist and literary critic Jason Cowley travelled to New York to meet David Sylvian for an article published in the Observer on 10 April. Their conversation continued over email.



 

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