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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Books
The drowned world. When Sir Joseph Bazalgette built the Victoria Embankment, he "placed chains upon the river". But, warns Will Self, London's resurgent waters will have the final revenge
- 16 June 2003
Liquid History: the Thames through time Stephen Croad Batsford, 208pp, £15.99 ISBN 0713488344
Culture
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
Poetry
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
Books
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
Books
The road as metaphor of itself. Iain Sinclair may be a fellow-traveller of cranks and eccentrics, but he is also one of our most original and talented writers. Will Self celebrates a self-styled psychogeographer
- 30 September 2002
London Orbital: a walk around the M25 Iain Sinclair Granta Books, 482pp, £25 ISBN 1862075476
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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
Ideas
Eating people is wrong. "I was left moaning on the floor in a foetal position." Will Self reads E O Wilson's new book on the coming environmental catastrophe and despairs
- 29 April 2002
The Future of Life Edward O Wilson Little, Brown, 229pp, £18.99 ISBN 0316648531
At the arms fair, I speak to the Russians, Israelis and Swedes. The Brits, though, won't come near me
- 04 March 2002
Books
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
