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A Posthumous Shock: How everything became trauma

November 18, 2021

A long essay in Harper’s Magazine argues that the symptoms we now call PTSD are only an extreme version of a distinctively modern consciousness.

NEW: Listen to Harper’s Magazine web editor Violet Lucca talking to Will about his essay:

Harper’s Magazine · A Posthumous Shock

The Great British Bake Off

November 16, 2021

On the politics behind the nation’s beloved baking show.

A Point of View: Car hatred

October 31, 2021

Will’s blistering attack on cars and their drivers, who are “told they have the ability to go anywhere when the truth is they’re shackled to a grotesque and Sisyphean go-round: they have to make the money, to pay for the car, to sit in the traffic jam, to make the money to pay for the car” for A Point of View on Radio 4.

On Daniel Craig

October 24, 2021

This week’s Multicultural Man column considers the James Bond actor’s comments on his fondness of gay bars.

On slangish

October 14, 2021

On slang as a form of communication and its standing in the education system.

Lincoln Book Festival

October 1, 2021

Will is going to be talking to Dr Guy Mankowski about his latest book, Will, and ‘whether it captures the diversity of his life or, as suggested in the Daily Telegraph, is “Just another Selfian character, subject to absolute authorial control, the fragmented derangement of his youth woven into an intricate and coherent whole by the mature author”‘ at the Lincoln Book Festival on 14 October at 6.30pm. Tickets cost £10 and can be bought here.

On Extinction Rebellion and royalty

September 23, 2021

Two recent New European columns: the first on Extinction Rebellion; the second on royalty.

On churchgoing

September 7, 2021

Will has written about being welcomed in church and religious identity for his latest New European Multicultural Man column.

Stephen Wright’s House of Dreams

August 26, 2021

Will’s latest New European column can be found here.

How big pharma helped create our mental health crisis

July 26, 2021

Will’s review essay on Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies is available to read for free on the Prospect magazine website here during its two-week paywall holiday.

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Will Self's latest book Will is published in hardback by Viking on 14 November 2019.

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Phone
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  Shark
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Umbrella
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  The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Prawn Cracker
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The Undivided Self
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  Walking To Hollywood
Walking To Hollywood
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The Butt
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  Grey Area
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Junk Mail
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  Great Apes
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Cock And Bull
Cock And Bull
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  The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
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The Sweet Smell Of Psychosis
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis
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  My Idea Of Fun
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The Book Of Dave
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  Psychogeography
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Psycho Too
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  Liver
Liver
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How The Dead Live
How The Dead Live
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  Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
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Dr Mukti And Other Tales Of Woe
Dr Mukti And Other Tales Of Woe
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  Dorian
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Feeding Frenzy
Feeding Frenzy
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  Sore Sites
Sore Sites
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Perfidious Man
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