The first in a series for the Literary Hub by Will on how – and why – we read.
What The Crown tells us about the monarchy
The welcome return of Radio 4’s News Quiz audience
Will’s latest column for The New European, on the return of Radio 4’s News Quiz audience.
An unforgettable encounter with Terence Conran
Will’s latest column for The New European on his memories of interviewing the late designer.
What gaming tells us about the human condition
Here’s Will’s latest column for The New European.
A Point of View: Legacy Bottle Opener
For his latest A Point of View on BBC Radio 4, Will Self discusses how the pandemic has affected our views of inheritance. Listen here.
A new Will Self short story
“It’s usually a mistake for a fiction writer to rush into print with a story that takes flight, imaginatively, from events that are still underway, and which are affecting large numbers of people. In the case of the Covid-19 pandemic, this injunction to keep out would seem to be as strident as the black-and-yellow striped tape swagged about a crime scene.
“What moved me to nonetheless ignore all warnings and respond fictionally was twofold: an editor who I deeply respect – Alex Bilmes at British Esquire – asked me to; and I already had an embryonic tale, which, once I began considering the matter, extended into my fervid psyche, like the lengthening protein ‘spike’ on a coronavirus virion.
Walking to Paris
Will has written about walking to Paris for his latest New European column, which can be read here.
The lessons of Little Britain Lake
Will’s latest New European column can be found here.
A liberal interpretation
‘Not a day goes by without further frontline despatches from the war between our established liberal ideology and the strange new realities that body-forth from the future. Taking today — the one on which I sat down to write this article — as representative, I found in my morning bulletins a report about how the US Constitution’s vaunted separation of powers — personified by Special Counsel Robert Mueller — was leading inexorably to the indictment, and hence removal, of “rogue” President Donald Trump. Then there was an item about the minister for women, whose public musings about the rise in the numbers of young people applying for gender-reassignment therapies were being taken as prima facie evidence that she doubted the authenticity of trans people’s claims to be gender dysphoric.
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