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The pandemic, pedestrians and my third bike accident

Will’s latest New European column is about being knocked off his bike again. He wonders whether the reactions of passers-by were conditioned by the pandemic.

Film Club: Will Self on Andrei Tarkovsky

Another online How to Academy event with Will, this time on the films of Andrei Tarkovsky on 11 March at 6.30pm GMT. For more info and tickets, go here.

Drugs and addiction discussion with David Nutt

Will is going to be in conversation with Professor David Nutt to talk about drugs and addiction on 25 February at 6.30pm GMT for the How to Academy. For tickets and more information go here.

My Swiftian plan for Britain’s post-Covid recovery

A modest proposal in Will’s latest column for The New European.

Going Underground

Will’s latest A Point of View for Radio 4 can be heard here.

In Praise of Literary Promiscuity in the Digital Age

The first in a series for the Literary Hub by Will on how – and why – we read.

In conversation for the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival

What The Crown tells us about the monarchy

… and what it doesn’t …

Will by Will Self published in paperback

Will Selfs book Will is now published in paperback by Penguin. Writing in The Observer, Alex Preston hailed its darkly angelic prose and said it was a joy to read, with the final part in particular recalling David Foster Wallace at his best.

Grove will publish Will in the US in January.

‘Is there a Culture War and can it be won?’