Jason Cowley is a British journalist, editor and author. In September 2007 he became the editor of Granta while remaining as a writer on The Observer. In September 2008 he became editor of the New Statesman. He has published a novel, Unknown Pleasures,[3] and his second book, a work of narrative non-fiction called The Last Game: Love, Death and Football at the End of the Eighties, will be published by Simon & Schuster in spring 2009.