Issues of gender identity move from the philosophical to the physical realm in these two racy, startingly inventive novellas of genital anomaly set in contemporary London. ``Cock'' introduces Carol, a ...

I hadn’t realised how much I’d missed hearing Will Self until he reappeared. While I was sorry to learn he had been unwell, I found myself unexpectedly delighted by two recent TV appearances: first in ...

In “Elaine,” Will Self conjures a 1950s housewife who bears a striking resemblance to the woman who raised him. In “Elaine,” Will Self conjures a 1950s housewife who bears a striking resemblance to ...

To recall a celebrated line from the first page of his first book, “The Quantity Theory of Insanity,” it is now over three decades since Will Self tore through the London literary scene as if he were ...