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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In America, God is now everywhere. Only in a Muslim country is he comparably pre-eminent
- 12 November 2001
Culture
Mainlining
- 05 November 2001
Ralph Steadman's drawings hit their target like a high-velocity bullet. Will Self, who tried to imitate his hero to disastrous effect, reveals the cartoonist's latest idea: to turn a mental asylum into an art centre
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Living with dead time. The Situationists believed they could change the world. They ended up destroying themselves. Will Self on the death of the avant-garde
- 27 August 2001
The Game of War: the life and death of Guy Debord Andrew Hussey Jonathan Cape, 420pp, £18.99 ISBN 022404348X The Map is Not the Territory Alan Woods and Ralph Rumney Manchester University Press, 204pp, £25
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The noble savage. It took the near-ruination of the environment for man to realise he was not separate from nature, but part of it. Will Self probes the animal origins of human culture
- 16 July 2001
The Ape and the Sushi Master: cultural reflections by a primatologist Frans de Waal Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 433pp, £16.99 ISBN 0713995696
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Lines, damn lines, and statistics. Will Self reads a life of Pablo Escobar, the most notorious dope dealer of modern times, and recalls his own adventures in the land of addiction
- 04 June 2001
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Killing Pablo: the hunt for the richest, most powerful criminal in history Mark Bowden Atlantic Books, 387pp, £16.99 ISBN 1903809002
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Oh no, not another silly title. The great quest of British publishing is profundity by association, the search for books that can convince middlebrow readers that they are reading something highbrow. By Will Self
- 09 April 2001
Wittgenstein's Poker: the story of a ten-minute argument between two great philosophers David Edmonds and John Eidinow Faber and Faber, 267pp, £9.99 ISBN 057120547X
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Dirty old man
- 25 December 2000
The Annotated Alice: the definitive edition Lewis Carroll, with an introduction by Martin Gardner Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 334pp, £20 ISBN 0517189208
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Will Self on Charles Maclean's St Kilda: Island on the Edge of the World
- 27 November 2000
St Kilda: Island on the Edge of the World Charles Maclean Canongate, £5.99 pbk ISBN 0862413885
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Into the labyrinth. Peter Ackroyd's new book on London renders all others on the subject redundant. Will Self reads a contemporary masterpiece
- 16 October 2000
London: the biography Peter Ackroyd Chatto & Windus, 822pp, £25 ISBN 1856197166
