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The Sins of Literature: Plagiarism 23 Aug 2013 | 01:15 pm
Listen to the third and final part of The Sins of Literature on Radio 4, which Will has contributed to.
Real meals: Borchardt, Berlin 22 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
I ran into the crime writer Philip Kerr at Gatwick – he and his family were happily on their way to Corfu, while I was gloomily en route to Berlin to do some work with my German translator. Kerr was e...
An ugly blot on the landscape 18 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Disturbing report by Will in the Mail on Sunday about the treatment he and his youngest son, 11, received at the hands of a security guard at Bishop Burton College nearing the end of their long trek f...
The madness of crowds: The iconisation of Nelson Mandela 15 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
“Free Nelson Mandela with every large public building,” my wife wryly observed one evening as we trudged up the stairs to the Royal Festival Hall, passing a particularly dreadful outsize bronze head o...
On the Lake District 15 Aug 2013 | 07:05 pm
Will’s Esquire piece about the Lake District can be found here.
Thou Shalt Not Hide 14 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
Part two of The Sins of Literature, which Will Self has contributed to (available to listen to until 19 August).
Psychiatrists: the drug pushers 9 Aug 2013 | 03:58 am
Big piece by Will Self in Guardian Review at the weekend on the efficacy of psychiatry and the role of pharmaceutical companies in treating psychopathologies, which prompted this response in the Guard...
Moral Maze: Richard Wagner 8 Aug 2013 | 01:08 pm
Will Self is one of the witnesses on this episode of the Moral Maze about Richard Wagner, which considers the idea that his music is morally tainted by his anti-semitism.
Bookslam 57 8 Aug 2013 | 02:54 am
Listen to Will Self reading from Umbrella and being interviewed in this Bookslam podcast (respectively at the 29min and 9min 30sec mark).
Real meals: Harry Ramsden’s 7 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
It’s a strong claim: “The best fish and chips in the world”; as is another bon – but ungrammatical – mot, attributed to the Master Fryer himself: “There is no chip ever cut by man which cannot be cook...
