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Will Self: The nostalgia of the “heritage novel” leaves me reaching for my gun

Will Self on his Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Phone, his love of ellipses – and the Downton Abbey effect on literature.

By Stuart Kelly

Will Self: The nostalgia of the “heritage novel” leaves me reaching for my gun

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Essayism is ultimately about how literature can make a difference

Brian Dillon’s study of the essay is a beautiful and elegiac volume – having read it, I re-read it.

By Stuart Kelly

Will Self’s Phone will be one of the most significant literary works of our century

Self's trilogy reflects and refracts the hideousness of our times.

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