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Special report 3 - The city that forever resists the rational

  • 07 July 2003

Since it burst its stone banks in medieval times, London has defied central planners. Only Margaret Thatcher understood its anarcho-dynamism. By Will Self

Anvil of angst

  • 03 March 2003

Music - Massive Attack were the soundtrack of the 1990s. Will Self on why the Bristol boys still outclass their rivals

How poetry became just an appendix. When do you hear anybody quote a line from a contemporary poet? Yet you hear Bob Dylan, and other songwriters, quoted all the time. By Will Self

  • 06 January 2003

Do You, Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the poets and professors
Edited by Neil Corcoran Chatto & Windus, 378pp, £17.99
ISBN 0701172800

Don't have any more, Mrs Moore. Is Peter Ackroyd a cockney mystic or one of our greatest scholars? A visionary or bombast? Will Self on the man who would be king of literary London

  • 04 November 2002

Albion: the origins of the English imagination
Peter Ackroyd Chatto & Windus, 516pp, £25
ISBN 1856197212

Ingenious bubble wrap. The 1990s revelled in decadence and imposture. Sadly, this clever cultural history is as superficial as the era it recalls, writes Will Self

  • 15 July 2002

The Nineties: when surface was depth
Michael Bracewell Flamingo, 373pp, £12.99
ISBN 0007128010

The biggest rogue of them all. Americans, said Bill Clinton, are targets of terrorism because "we act to advance peace and democracy". Pull the other one, writes Will Self

  • 14 January 2002

Rogue State: a guide to the world's only superpower
William Blum Zed Books, 308pp, £12.99
ISBN 1842770152

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