Idler

Dickens, Blyton, CS Lewis and Lewis Carroll revisited

Tom Hodgkinson | Comment

Anti-racism in Martin Chuzzlewit and other classics revisited

Jarvis on How to Be Creative

Tom Hodgkinson | Idler Magazine

An extract from Tom Hodgkinson’s interview with Jarvis Cocker in Idler 85, out now

“Jarvis’s

Maya Angelou: Working From Bed

Alex Johnson | Idler Magazine

Alex Johnson salutes the idling MO of a literary giant (from Idler 85, out

Punk to Priest

Hugo Deadman | Idler Magazine

How Hugo Deadman went from punk singer to speechwriter to priest (extracted from Idler

7 Questions for Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith | Comment

“There are far too many hours in the day”

7 Questions for Ben Moor

Ben Moor | Comment

“Work is the ideal thing to do between snacks”

7 Questions for Charles Hazlewood

Charles Hazlewood | Festival

“If Parliament was forced to sing in harmony, we’d have a better world”

Roll Up for the Idler Festival

Tom Hodgkinson | Letter from the Editor

8, 9 and 10 July, Fenton House & Garden, Hampstead NW3

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