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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UK Politics
My bath mat's campaign for the presidency
- 10 April 2008
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I revealed the intimacy of my relationship with Dr Moo, a half-man, half-cow chimera created following the new embryology bill
Books
Inside the green zone
- 12 July 2007
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Wildwood: a Journey Through Trees Roger Deakin Hamish Hamilton, 416pp, £20
Books
Senseless evil
- 08 January 2007
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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
Books
Stop making sense
- 30 October 2006
Dr Clock's Handbook edited by Mel Gooding and Julian Rothenstein Redstone Press, 168pp, £19.99 ISBN 187000339X
Life & Society
Beware the fork-wielding terrorist
- 10 July 2006
I mused on how history is rewritten by the victors. Even during the IRA bombing, we teenagers still had a lurking respect for them. Not my son
Politics
Now is the time for a new CND
- 27 March 2006
Will Self calls for a broad coalition to mobilise once again, and expel foreign warmongers from our soil
Books
The first literary celebrity . Portrayed by Boswell as an idle pensioner, Samuel Johnson in fact spent most of his life working furiously as a hack. It was the 18th century's burgeoning print culture that made him famous - and which created the need for his most famous work
- 16 May 2005
Dr Johnson's Dictionary: the extraordinary story of the book that defined the world Henry Hitchings John Murray, 278pp, £14.99 ISBN 0719566312
Books
Hostile climate
- 31 May 2004
High Tide: news from a warming world Mark Lynas Flamingo, 341pp, £16.99 ISBN 086319009X
Diary - Will Self
- 05 January 2004
In Argyle Street on Boxing Day, I find teeming crowds. Clearly the masses can withstand only a few scant hours away from the hamster wheel of consumerism
Politics
How the left always loses. In being so right about so much that has gone wrong, Nick Cohen shows exactly why new Labour has thrown itself in the dustbin of history. But he's not quite negative enough, writes Will Self
- 22 September 2003
Pretty Straight Guys Nick Cohen Faber & Faber, 296pp, £14.99 ISBN 0571220037
