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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Out of Africa. To his admirers, Rimbaud is the archetypal Romantic poet-adventurer. But was he really a slave-trader, seedy pederast and gun-runner? Will Self on the man behind the myth

  • 25 September 2000

Rimbaud Graham Robb Picador, 552pp, £20 ISBN 0330482823

Resurrecting the Third Republic. Who was Jean Moulin? Will Self unravels the myths enshrouding the elusive hero of the French resistance

  • 31 July 2000

The death of Jean Moulin: biography of a ghost Patrick Marnham John Murray, 290pp, £20 ISBN 0719559197

By my tenth novel, I shall find myself tap-happy in the Piazza San Marco, talking to my agent on my mobile

  • 13 March 2000

I danced to a decadent drum. An impressive study of the Brit-Art scene prompts Will Self to relive his drunken nights out with a group of over-hyped cartoonists masquerading as serious artists

  • 31 January 2000

High Art Lite Julian Stallabrass Verso, 342pp, £22 ISBN 1859847218

I travel

  • 22 November 1999

On Holiday: A History of Vacationing Orvar Lofgren University of California Press, 370pp, £18.50 ISBN 0520217675

Auto-destruction

  • 22 January 1999

Sir Vidia's Shadow Paul Theroux Hamish Hamilton, 384pp, £17.99

The ghost in the machine. What happens in the brain when we remember? A new study of trends in neuroscience attempts to unravel one of the mysteries of consciousness

  • 08 January 1999

Memory Patricia Fara and Karalyn Patterson (editors) Cambridge University Press, 207pp, £17.95

In the Union of Facelessness

  • 18 December 1998

An original short story

Future shocks

  • 27 November 1998

What Remains To Be Discovered John Maddox Macmillan, 434pp, £20

Afghanistan

Doomed to failure

Two sides of the Coin

Hung parliament

Who would rule?

Doing deals in Downing Street

Interview

Seymour Hersh

The NS Interview: Seymour Hersh

Television

Paradox

Paradox

What if...

The Beatles never formed

What if .... the Beatles had never formed

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Eats at Subway

Attack of the one-foot sandwich

Iraq war

We want a trial

Iraq, Palin and building bridges

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