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Informationen zum Autor Jason Cowley is an English journalist, magazine editor and writer. After working at the New Statesman, he became the editor of Granta in September 2007, while also remaining a writer on The Observer. He returned to the New Statesman as its editor in September 2008. Klappentext The often-credited revitalising force at the "New Statesman" Jason Cowley brings together his most insightful work on the shifting political scene of the past decade, reflecting on such figures as Blair, Corbyn, the Miliband brothers and Alex Salmond. Also includes essays on the political implications of the novels of Martin Amis, Philip Roth, Kazuo Ishiguro and other zeitgeist-inclined fiction writers. Zusammenfassung Reaching for Utopia brings together insightful essays and profiles chronicling the remarkable political and cultural transformations of the last decade – from the fall of Blair to the rise of Corbyn and Brexit. He has met and interviewed all the major political players shaping and changing the way we live today.
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Jason Cowley is an English journalist, magazine editor and writer. After working at the New Statesman, he became the editor of Granta in September 2007, while also remaining a writer on The Observer. He returned to the New Statesman as its editor in September 2008.
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The subtitle for this collection of essays, profiles and interviews by New Statesman editor Jason Cowley is "making sense of an age of upheaval" and largely he succeeds. The section on politics and power is fascinating. Cowley is determined to understand antagonists, to explain the dominant individuals shaping our era. The likes of Arsène Wenger, Tiger Woods, Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan are explored in the Lives and Letters collection, too, making for a well-rounded collection by a thoughtful and engaging writer.
Ben East The Observer
