Listen to Will’s A Point of View tonight at 8.50pm on Radio 4, The Bomb Makes a Comeback. “Many people think of this as the two thousand and twenty-second year of the Christian era – I’m more inclined to view it as the sixtieth of the Arkhipov one …”
‘The West gave Putin green card to invade’
Self on Sebald
Twenty years after the death of WG Sebald, Will talks to Sebald biographer Carole Angier and his former friend, the poet Stephen Wells exploring the archive devoted to one of the great writers of the late 20th Century on Radio 4 at 8pm (GMT) here.
Are the Oscars obsolete?
On misopedia: the British attitude to children
You can listen to Will’s latest Point of View on Radio 4 from earlier this evening here.
Ulysses reading – Telemachus
As part of Shakespeare and Company‘s celebration of the centenary publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Will reads the first episode, which you can listen to here. Listen to the rest of the readings of the novel here when they become available.
Will Self’s fantasy dinner party
Frankly, any dinner party is a fantasy to me nowadays. I was pretty disaffected from the polite pissing contest that constitutes the average middle-class munch-fest long before the pandemic, but the past couple of years have seen the psychic equivalent of sticky tape printed with “POLICE CRIME SCENE” stretched across this particular zone of sociality. So it’s with considerable pleasure that I retreat into a purely fantastical one.
Mark Francois’ Spartan Victory is illiteracy on parade
Will’s review of Mark Francois’ self-published memoir in the New European.
Interview with Our Struggle podcast
On the betrayal of Afghanistan
Will’s latest column for The New European.
