Why Us?
Posted by Chris H on February 22nd, 2009A review of James Le Fanu’s Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves, published in the Evening Standard.
A review of James Le Fanu’s Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves, published in the Evening Standard.
Will now has his own Author’s Choice page on Amazon, which you can find here.
Will’s review of The Age of Elizabeth II by AN Wilson.
19.09.08
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
“I’ve got cocaine running around my brain!” So chanted Dillinger, the reggae toaster, in a mid-1970s paean to the white stuff that was an instant hit with those of us adolescent delinquents intent on an instant hit. Dillinger wasn’t the first or the last reggae star to take his moniker from a famous outlaw, but his cheerful little ditty was a curtain-raiser on a quarter-century during which the only criminal act in the global village worth talking about has been the production, export and sale of drugs.