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Erotically Unmoored: Hanif Kureishi's Collected Short Stories (2010)
Mishima's Sword (2006)
On 25th November 1970, the Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, accompanied by a private army of extreme right wing students dressed in Ruritanian uniforms he’d commissioned from a well-known fashion designer, entered the Eastern Army Group Headquarters in Tokyo and took a senior general hostage.
Liberalism, Censorship and the Chilling Effect
Index on Censorship asked me to blog about the campaign against Rod Liddle's possible appointment to the editorship of the Independent. A comment thread is already underway on the the Index Site:
Airline Security: Profiling and paranoia (2010)
I flew LHR-JFK just after the Christmas day bomb attempt. Paranoia and security lines. I was reminded of how bad things were just after 9/11 and wrote an anecdotal piece for The Guardian.
The Culture House (2009)
I have a short story in this week's New Statesman. It's called The Culture House.
Mute Post-Crunch Fiction Special (2009)
Mute magazine has published a special edition featuring some fictional futurism.
Happy New Decade: Are you (still) Afraid? (2004, 2009)
As we head towards the new year and every media outlet on the planet compiles lists of definitive this and that, I found this 2004 piece on my hard drive, which seems to do a reasonable decade-summarising job. It was a column for Arena magazine. I'm not sure they printed it, though I remember they took my picture on the concourse at Waterloo station.
Hari Kunzru guest reading at Birdsong #10
BIRDSONG #10 — zine release/reading/art/music show with everyone’s favorite pie-loving, Williamsburg-based interdisciplinary DIY arts collective THE BIRDSONG COLLECTIVE
Friday, December 11th at 8 PM
with guest reader, novelist/journalist HARI KUNZRU
The Millions: A Year in Reading
The Millions blog is doing its annual 'year in reading' series, not restricted to books published in 2009. Participants so far include Jonathan Lethem, Philip Lopate and me...
The Crime and Punishment of Yang Yunbiao (2008)
In 2008, in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, I participated in a PEN event intended to highlight human rights abuses in China. This is a video of a text I read at that event.









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