Author Spotlight

Kevin Jackson

Writer, filmmaker, and broadcaster Kevin Jackson (1955–2021) was the author or editor of more than thirty books. He contributed regularly to Sight and Sound, the Guardian, and BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review, and his documentary work included coproducing Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain for Channel 4. He was also a visiting professor of English at University College London.

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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters: Pen and Sword
The idea of self-fashioning—of deliberately taking the raw materials of one’s body and mind and transforming them into a work of art—has been with us at least since the Renaissance. Yet no one, not even Oscar Wilde, has so rigorously pursued th…

By Kevin Jackson