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The welcome return of Radio 4’s News Quiz audience

Will’s latest column for The New European, on the return of Radio 4’s News Quiz audience.

How to Academy events

There are a couple of live online events coming up that Will is doing for the How to Academy. On 10 November from 6.30pm to 7.30pm, he’ll be giving a talk on death and bereavement. Then on 18 November from 6.30pm to 7.30pm he’ll be talking to Ralph Steadman.

An unforgettable encounter with Terence Conran

Will’s latest column for The New European on his memories of interviewing the late designer.

The Phone and Phone Booth Assemblage Considered as Mise en Abyme

Will has written an original essay for ‘The Exchange’ – a collaboration between Crossed Lines and the Science Museum – exploring the impact of the iconic K6 telephone box and the 706L Modern Phone on both public and private communication and examines how these technologies continue to shape our understanding of the world.

You can read or listen to it at the Science Museum or Crossed Lines.

What gaming tells us about the human condition

Here’s Will’s latest column for The New European.

In search of the self: the benefits of psychogeography

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Will’s recent talk for the Institute of Art and Ideas’ annual philosophy and music festival, HowTheLightGetsIn.

How to Live a More Creative Life

Will Self will be giving an hour-long talk for the How To Academy in a livestream at 6.30pm on Wednesday July 29 on the subject of creativity. For tickets and further details, visit the How To Academy website here.

A Point of View: Legacy Bottle Opener

For his latest A Point of View on BBC Radio 4, Will Self discusses how the pandemic has affected our views of inheritance. Listen here.

A new Will Self short story

“It’s usually a mistake for a fiction writer to rush into print with a story that takes flight, imaginatively, from events that are still underway, and which are affecting large numbers of people. In the case of the Covid-19 pandemic, this injunction to keep out would seem to be as strident as the black-and-yellow striped tape swagged about a crime scene.

“What moved me to nonetheless ignore all warnings and respond fictionally was twofold: an editor who I deeply respect – Alex Bilmes at British...

HowTheLightGetsIn Online Festival 2020, May 22-25

Will is going to be appearing in a debate, The End of the Whitewash, with Adjoa Andoh, Kehinde Andrews and Joanna Kavenna on Saturday May 23 at 7.45pm at the replacement Hay festival, HowTheLightGetsIn. Visit here for details and tickets.

“We celebrate diversity, and in the arts many support colour blind casting. From the film The Personal History of David Copperfield to the musical Hamilton, stories are cast to reflect the racial diversity of our culture. But critics argue that, far from being ...