Stuart Kelly

Will Self’s memoir of drug addiction is a masterpiece of black humour

His descriptions of Oxford are a kind of inverse Brideshead Revisited, with more opiates than teddy bears. But it’s a profoundly serious and moving book too

issue 07 December 2019
  • Comments

  • Will

    Will Self

    Penguin Viking, pp. 400, £14

GIF Image

Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it

TRY 3 MONTHS FOR $5
Our magazine articles are for subscribers only. Start your 3-month trial today for just $5 and subscribe to more than one view

Read next

Trending

Thomas Edwards

Pope Francis leaves behind a divided church

Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88 was neither untimely nor a great surprise. Having made what appeared to be a miraculous recovery from double pneumonia and kidney failure – and subsequently turning up at St Peter’s in a poncho just two weeks ago – Francis appeared to have been granted a new lease

More on drugs

Also by Stuart Kelly

Latest

Comments

Join the debate for just £1 a month

Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first three months for £3.

Already a subscriber? Log in