Profiles
He is the most popular novelist on earth, whose images of catastrophe animate the modern American psyche
Twenty years later: Ian Curtis was more than a singer, and Joy Division were more than a band
He holds up a mirror to a sick society
He is the ideal chronicler of the new South Africa
In one of the last interviews with Iris Murdoch, Jason Cowley found her still pondering on the spaces that God left behind
A "literary barbarian"? Or a writer to whom future generations will turn for insights into our times?
The author of “Crash” and “Empire of the Sun” talks sex, technology and the 1960s. Do his dark obsessions amount to a serious quest to understand modernity?
Ten years after the publication of A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking is still seeking the last piece of the cosmic jigsaw
To his critics he is an arrogant apologist for colonialism and a cheerleader for Hindu nationalism. To his admirers he is the finest writer in the English language and creator of a new literary form
Jason Cowley meets America's "national novelist"
The Nobel laureate grapples with the defining complexities of the troubled post-apartheid state
A rare interview with the reluctant pop star and post-rock visionary. Update: I will publish the transcript from this interview soon when I have digitised the tape. See also these articles on Holllis: Inside the Walled Garden; The Sound of Silence: https://www.jasoncowley.net/ar...
Jason Cowley meets the poet Charles Causley, who at 80 has just seen his collected works published
Arundhati Roy’s first and only novel has won her this year’s Booker Prize and made her a millionaire. Who is she and what does she want?
Donald Maclean’s betrayal of his country to the former Soviet Union ended his brother’s career. But Alan Maclean refuses to condemn the Soviet spy
Polymath, scholar and instinctive outsider, George Steiner talks about Jewishness, passion and the decency of the English
Bernard MacLaverty on escaping the prison of Northern Ireland politics
So much of what he does and says is motivated by questions of self-validation: How good am I? What am I worth?
Mormon Brian Evenson has been reviled by his Church for writing what they feel is sadistic and perverted fiction
The American actress and her Hollywood entourage are in London