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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.

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Music and Performance
Anvil of angst
03 March 2003

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

Books
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 & Wi

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

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 18620

Books
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 000

Books
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

Culture
Will Self reports from the front line of the year in Absurdistan
17 December 2001
In America, God is now everywhere. Only in a Muslim country is he comparably pre-eminent
12 November 2001

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