Jason Cowley

Reaching for Utopia: Making Sense of An Age of Upheaval (eBook, ePUB)

Essays, profiles, reportage

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. Cowley is fascinated by the men and women obsessed with creating the history of our era as well as those who document it. He has met and interviewed all the major political players shaping and changing the way we live today.

The book features fascinating, wide-ranging narrative profiles of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, the Miliband brothers, Jeremy Corbyn, Alex Salmond, Nigel Farage, David Cameron, George Osborne and Theresa May. No other journalist has met and interviewed all of these politicians

The book also showcases literary-political assessments of some of the major writers of our time whose mission it is to tell the story of our times, including Philip Roth, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, John le Carré and Kazuo Ishiguro.

Cowley is one of the most influential journalists in Britain. He is notable for being both a political and literary journalist. And he also writes about sport, especially football, and covered the 2006 World Cup in Germany for the Observer.

Cowley has been widely credited with transforming the fortunes of the New Statesman, which in 2017 has recorded its highest print circulation for nearly 40 years as well as becoming a major digital title with rapidly growing online profile. According to the European Press Prize, 'Cowley has succeeded in revitalising the New Statesman and re-establishing its position as an influential political and cultural weekly. He has given the New Statesman an edge and a relevance to current affairs it hasn't had for years.'

Cowley has consistently been included in the London Evening Standard's list of the 1,000 Most Influential People in London. He was named among Britain's most influential 500 people by Debrett's 500 in association with the Sunday Times in 2015.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Salt
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784631536
• Artikelnr.: 53710918

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

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