Pigeon Boy
From the Archives
James Parker diagnoses the psychosis of city living… Read more
Articles
Book of the Week: Homesick
Catrina Davies | Books
The story of a woman who decided to live in a shed… Read more
Where lies happiness?
From the Archives
Ask Homer Simpson, wrote Gavin Hills in Idler Issue Two… Read more
Book of the Week: Square Haunting
Francesca Wade | Books
The story of a radical square in Bloomsbury… Read more
Zen and the art of dishwasher maintenance
Tom Hodgkinson
How to free yourself from domestic slavery… Read more
The Drunken Hairdresser
James Parker | From the Archives
A short story from Idler Issue One about a boozing barber … Read more
Book of the Week: Coventry
Rachel Cusk | Books
Rachel Cusk on Assisi and the life of St Francis… Read more
Interview: Rowan Williams
Idler Magazine
Lessons in the good life from a former Archbishop … Read more
Why I love to loaf
Josh Cohen | Idler Magazine
Josh Cohen tunes out… Read more
The Lost Trains of Tripoli
Flora Neville | Idler Magazine
Flora Neville finds the shades of TE Lawrence and the Ottoman Empire in the… Read more
Christmas Sermon
Idle Thoughts
Mark Vernon on the real meaning of the nativity story… Read more
Christmas is about anarchy and childishness
Tom Hodgkinson | Comment
Tom Hodgkinson on the story of Christmas and its true meaning… Read more