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The Quantity Theory of Morality by Will Self review – raucously inventive state-of-the-nation satire

Thirty-five years on from his debut collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Self takes aim at London’s chattering classes in an excoriating vision of moral decline

The Guardian - UK

Elaine by Will Self review – an intense reimagining of the author’s mother’s life

Elaine is a thwarted writer in 1950s upstate New York, on the brink of affairs and murdering her own child, in a claustrophobic novel full of Self’s stylistic mannerisms

The Guardian - UK

Elaine by Will Self review – all about my mother

An extraordinary portrait of a frustrated and furious 1950s American housewife, based on the diaries of Self’s mother

The Guardian - UK

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Adrian Chiles to judge prestigious book awards

The Guardian columnist has divided opinion with his meandering missives

Evening Standard

Artists Rob and Nick Carter: ‘If Warhol was alive he would definitely be using robots’

As they open their exhibition celebrating 25 years of working together, the couple talk about AI versus analogue, and that time Will Self frisbeed an artwork out the window of the Groucho Club

Evening Standard

‘I’d been fired once; it didn’t hurt’: Melvyn Bragg on breakdowns, bust ups and 1,000 episodes of In Our Time

The broadcaster’s Radio 4 programme has been running for 25 years, was the first ever BBC podcast and is its most downloaded ever weekly show. Not bad for being stuck in the ‘death slot’…

The Guardian - UK

Stop moralising about British history, Zadie Smith tells fans

She also spoke about abstaining from social media and recording the audiobook of her new novel

Evening Standard

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Celebs pelted with cigarette butts in catwalk meltdown

Vogue magazine’s chief critic was “really not happy”

Evening Standard

Will Self: ‘I’m seen as a still-walking dead white man’

The novelist on his new collection of journalism, why he regrets criticising Sally Rooney and how he’s never shaken off the influence of JG Ballard

The Guardian - UK

Why Read review: Talented pedagogue Will Self steers clear of bad juju

EAST Kilbride, 1974: I’m 12 and I buy 10cc’s Sheet Music then bug my old man for hours about the lyrics. Dad, what’s a palooka? What does…

The National (Scotland)

Londoner’s Diary: Will Self hits back in ongoing feud with Mark Francois

WILL SELF has returned fire in his ongoing feud with Mark Francois, the Tory politician who he clashed with in a stare-off on BBC show Politics Live.

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