Will Self

Will Self

Will Self is the author of seven novels, six collections of stories and five collections of non-fiction. His most recent novel is The Butt. He writes the Madness of Crowds column for the New Statesman as well as the Real Meals column.

Articles by Will Self

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Where the Wilde things are

  • 05 November 2009

The desecration of Oscar Wilde's grave by his "fans" is criminally vulgar

Tikka chance on ghee

  • 29 October 2009
  • 2 comments

Your call is not important to us

  • 22 October 2009
  • 2 comments

The inconsiderate use of mobile phones is a form of collective madness

More cluck for your buck

  • 15 October 2009
  • 2 comments

A visit to KFC: how can anything that tastes this awful be quite so popular?

To be honest, it’s totally random

  • 08 October 2009
  • 4 comments

The lexicon that grips the masses

I'm leavin' it

  • 01 October 2009
  • 2 comments

Walking into the McDonald's on Oxford Street made me feel like Rip Van Winkle

The psychopath is in the detail

  • 24 September 2009
  • 4 comments

British architects have been gripped by wood mania

My bath mat's campaign for the presidency

  • 10 April 2008
  • 1 comment

I revealed the intimacy of my relationship with Dr Moo, a half-man, half-cow chimera created following the new embryology bill

Inside the green zone

  • 12 July 2007
  • 1 comment

Wildwood: a Journey Through Trees Roger Deakin Hamish Hamilton, 416pp, £20

Senseless evil

  • 08 January 2007
  • 1 comment

Hannibal Rising Thomas Harris William Heinemann, 336pp, £17.99 ISBN 978-0385339414 Thomas Harris's thrillers promise to explain the most grotesque crimes committed by their serial killers. In real life, it's not quite so simple

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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