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Nicholas Lezard

Nicholas Lezard is a literary critic for the Guardian and also writes for the Independent. He writes the Down and Out in London column for the New Statesman.

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Lifestyle
My contact lens has gone to the Zonules of Zinn – I blame our throwaway culture
12 September 2012

Accidentally exploring the recesses of your eyeball.

Lifestyle
Age shall not wither me, nor shaving foam stale my vague variety
05 September 2012

Could one small pill would help me become a better-functioning adult?

Society
There’s no way I’ll be jamming in the small hours with that Tory MP again
29 August 2012
Books
So close to catastrophe, I glimpse an even more desperate parallel self
23 August 2012
Society
The Hovel is crawling with ants. Where have they all come from?
15 August 2012

The ant in the home is a particular problem, an outrage against human civilisation.

Lifestyle
Hygiene has always been a challenge in the Hovel, but now we’re in hell
08 August 2012

I’m a piles-and-piles-of-books-and-papers-around-the-place kind of person.

Travel
All change please - Boris’s travel announcements must terminate now
25 July 2012

These are times that try men’s souls.

Sport
London has been Olympicised...
19 July 2012

...The only consolation is that the gloomsters will win gold.

Society
I will not be sniffy about this non-Oxbridge university
04 July 2012
Lifestyle
Back in the marital home, I sleep in lonely vigil on the sofa
27 June 2012

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