Jacob Rees-Mogg isn’t what he seems

Will Self on motor-mania.

Martin Amis once confided his belief that his literary legacy would not last long. It was one of the rare occasions that he was wrong

Prince Harry and his wife may be absurd, but the reaction to his book shows almost everything he says about his family, and the press, is true

For true physical and existential salvation, nothing beats a good walk, argues author Will Self

Will Self was on Channel 4 News this evening, talking about the privatisation of public space. He'll be at the Space Probe Alpha event tomorrow at Potters

Don’t get caught up in sentimentality over Elizabeth’s death. This ridiculous institution needs to go.

From the Long Players series: writers on their most cherished albums.

I’d like to enjoy his Guardian writings, but there’s one small thing getting in the way

In his postmodern epic Solenoid, the Romanian novelist offers us an extraordinary and baroque elaboration of a subjectivity less than ordinary.

The relationship between politics and comedy is deeply unfunny

There’s no doubt that she knew how to make clothes in every sense – but the idea that she represented a spirit of rebelliousness is frankly ridiculous

In a series to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the author declares that it’s high time British politicans stopped muddling and meddling

Will Self on the pleasure of walking without purpose and the freedom of getting lost.

Will is going to be on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning at 8.50am discussing JG Ballard and the coronavirus lockdown. You can listen to the

Of the film adaptations that had been made of his work during his lifetime, JG Ballard vouchsafed to me that he liked Jonathan Weiss’s version of The

Political correctness, social media and confessional auto-fiction are enough to make the ageing enfant terrible of British literature despair.

They shared a famous TV Brexit moment. When Mark Francois wrote a book, there was only one person who could review it...

Will Self on the Charlie Hebdo attack at Vice.

The author on Harry Potter, the book that changed his mind about pornography and his writer regrets

Will Self remembers his 30-year friendship with the author, who died last week

Will Self on our fetishisation of property.

It used to be the baby boomers who were the problem – no longer

A chance yet again to listen to Will Self's hour-long Radio 4 programme on JG Ballard, here (for six days).

Will Self on London, Fran Lebowitz on New York, Helen Garner on Melbourne and other writers’ love letters to urban pedestrianism

Boris had a perfect grasp of the way to play the new-old game: develop a full-blown shtick-man of a caricature of yourself and use it to return all that’s smashed at you.

Will Self reflects on how the pandemic could affect our perception of human progress.

Aqua were right: we’re all Barbie girls and we’re all living in a Barbie world

Watch Will Self on Newsnight talking about addiction, after the death of the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The owner of the poet's old home got a call out of nowhere from the prize-winning author

Available episodes of Will Self Takes the Waters

In a three-part series on Radio 4, Will Self asks some of Britain's key opinion makers to share their conclusions about the nature - and meaning - of our

Watch Will Self debating the motion "We've Never Had it so Good" with Rod Liddle, Rachel Johnson and Jesse Norman, in this recent Intelligence Squared

I was going to write about the Fray Bentos individual steak and kidney pudding this week, which isn’t so much a meal as a world entire, but then there was

Will Self is convinced by an evolution-based account of humans’ close relationship to dogs and cats, not least because of his beloved terrier

When I was a kid, allotments were a kind of cliche: strictly for old-mannish types to potter around in. Not any more

In the last four decades, the state has sold 10% of Britain’s land, and 50 % of its public land. Why is no one scandalised?

A self-lacerating drugs memoir of ‘darkly angelic prose’ recalls Self’s heroin addiction in the 1980s

WILL SELF on an era when eating meat seemed as blameless as the means employed to obtain it

Will Self nominates Oscar Wilde.

He crashes his car, he overdoses, he sets himself on fire ... In his usual mannered, knowing style, Self recalls his desperate years on heroin

Will Self on why he has a problem with theory.

Will Self goes in search of an endangered species - the eccentric.

Read an edited version of this year's Richard Hillary memorial lecture, to be given tomorrow at the Gulbenkian theatre, St Cross Building, Oxford, at the

The one-time enfant terrible of British literature talks about information overload and how emotion rules the political sphere

Some are worried the new AI open resource will render writing assignments redundant. Our writer's interaction would suggest not

A viewing brings some shocking home truths about the state of the rental property market

The anxiety over artificial intelligence is a distraction from the real threat facing the planet

Scientists examining a chicken nugget have discovered DNA from over a hundred individuals mixed into a fowl mush. It makes you think, doesn’t it? I mean,

The author is just out of surgery, which may account for why he thinks we have a fondness for worrying about the wrong things

The consequences of the technological revolution may be even more frightening than we thought

To hold an old tin – many of which have pleasingly haptic qualities – is to feel one’s own hands gloved by ancient skin

Why our columnist has taken to de-evangelising evangelists

During 20 beer-free years a coldness crept throughout the collective British cellar – like some especially mundane effect – lacquering casks and bottles with condensation

Written after the Heart of Darkness, the novelist's secret agent thriller gains a new relevance today

Listen to Will Self discuss the legacy of Margaret Thatcher with Dominic Sandbrook, Selina Todd, Mark Littlewood, Peter Hitchens, Edith Hall and Edwina

Her prolific work introduced generations of English readers to writers as varied as Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Cornelia Funke

Writing in the third person gave me the objectivity I needed to describe my younger years as a heroin addict

Neuroscientists who insist technology is changing our brains may have it wrong. What if we are switching from books to digital entertainment because of a change in our need to communicate?

A trailblazing maverick, Ralph Steadman’s art defined the 1970s counterculture. He joins Will Self to tell the story of his life in ink, from his Welsh childhood to the invention of Gonzo with Hunter...

Self's trilogy reflects and refracts the hideousness of our times.

Will Self gives a lecture entitled ‘The Last Trump: Fiction in the Age of Uncertainty’ at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. The lecture was hosted by the Univ...

With war under way, it is impossible to visit a new exhibition of Francis Bacon's work and not think about humans’ terrible vulnerability in the face of shot and shell

Will Self explores what he sees as a growing sense of collective hypocrisy.

We all know the form: a Terrible ­Political Thing happens – and like many terrible political things that happen, it appears to have been caused by a