Jason Cowley

Jason Cowley on Granta.com

‘They had believed they were coming to a new town. But, they said, Harlow wasn’t new: it looked old.’

‘Music, because of its abstraction, is the most difficult of all art forms to write about with exactitude and precision.’

‘How did it feel to have a Jewish grandfather who owed his life to the friendship, or gratitude, or mercy, of Adolf Hitler?’