The New York Times asks, “Are hotels really the new community centres?” and sends Will Self to the “unhallowed portals of the newish W Hotel” in London to find out.

Short piece by Self in the New York Times about English girls who put the “It” in Brit.

Will Self writing about Scarlett Johansson and Dolce & Gabbana in the New York Times.

For those of you suffering withdrawal pangs since the end of the Psychogeography column in the Independent, here’s another instalment of Necessary Steps, this time about travelling to Foula in Shetland, from the New York Times. And to offset the loss of Ralph Steadman’s artwork, there’s Will’s photographs instead.