Andrew O’Hagan

Andrew O’Hagan is the author of three novels, the most recent is Be Near Me. A book of essays, The Atlantic Ocean, has just come out in paperback.

In the LRB Archive:

• Guilt: A Memoir · 5 November 2009

• Khrush in America: Khrushchev in America · 8 October 2009

  • K Blows Top by Peter Carlson

• Short Cuts: Valets · 10 September 2009

• A Car of One’s Own: Chariots of Desire · 11 June 2009

• Short Cuts: Susan Boyle · 14 May 2009

• Short Cuts: the Oscars · 26 February 2009

• Artovsky Millensky: The Misfit · 1 January 2009

  • Arthur Miller, 1915-62 by Christopher Bigsby

• Short Cuts: Voices from Beyond the Grave · 20 November 2008

• Candle Moments: Norman Lewis’s Inventions · 25 September 2008

  • Semi-Invisible Man: The Life of Norman Lewis by Julian Evans

• At the Movies · 17 July 2008

  • The Happening directed by M. Night Shyamalan

• Short Cuts: from Bethlehem · 5 June 2008

• Short Cuts: Dinner at the Digs · 20 March 2008

• Iraq, 2 May 2005: Two Soldiers · 6 March 2008

• Living It: The World of Andy McNab · 24 January 2008

  • Crossfire by Andy McNab
  • Strike Back by Chris Ryan

• Short Cuts · 13 December 2007

• Poor Hitler: Toff Humour · 15 November 2007

  • The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters edited by Charlotte Mosley

• Short Cuts: Telecom Rehab · 4 October 2007

• The Things We Throw Away: The Garbage of England · 24 May 2007

• Short Cuts: malingering trolley dollies · 8 February 2007

• Short Cuts: a journey to citizenship · 16 November 2006

• Nasty Lucky Genes: Fathers and Sons · 21 September 2006

  • The Arms of the Infinite by Christopher Barker

• Short Cuts: Scotland's hirsute folk hero · 17 August 2006

• Blame it on the boogie: In Pursuit of Michael Jackson · 6 July 2006

  • On Michael Jackson by Margo Jefferson

• Short Cuts: the Queen · 11 May 2006

• Diary: a report from Malawi · 23 March 2006

• A Journey in the South: in New Orleans · 6 October 2005

• A City of Prose: in Tavistock Square · 4 August 2005

• Who’s sorry now?: Michael Finkel gets lucky · 2 June 2005

  • True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa by Michael Finkel
  • Burning Down My Master’s House by Jayson Blair
  • The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

• Four Funerals and a Wedding: If something happens to me . . . · 5 May 2005

• In His Hot Head: Robert Louis Stevenson · 17 February 2005

  • Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography by Claire Harman

• Flossing: pukey poetry anthologies · 4 November 2004

  • Poems to Last a Lifetime edited by Daisy Goodwin
  • All the Poems You Need to Say I Do edited by Peter Forbes

• The God Squad in Bushland · 23 September 2004

• The Nominee: With the Democrats · 19 August 2004

• Brief Encounters: Gielgud and Redgrave · 5 August 2004

  • Gielgud's Letters edited by Richard Mangan
  • Secret Dreams: A Biography of Michael Redgrave by Alan Strachan

• Short Cuts: myths of Marilyn · 8 July 2004

• Disgrace under Pressure reads some lad mags · 3 June 2004

  • Stag & Groom Magazine edited by Perdita Patterson
  • Zoo edited by Paul Merrill
  • Nuts edited by Phil Hilton
  • Loaded edited by Martin Daubney
  • Jack edited by Michael Hodges
  • Esquire edited by Simon Tiffin
  • GQ edited by Dylan Jones
  • Men’s Health edited by Morgan Rees
  • Arena Homme Plus: ‘The Boys of Summer’ edited by Ashley Heath

• Cartwheels over Broken Glass: worshipping Morrissey · 4 March 2004

  • Saint Morrissey by Mark Simpson
  • The Smiths: Songs that Saved Your Life by Simon Goddard

• Watching Me Watching Them Watching You: Surveillance · 9 October 2003

• You Have A Mother Don’t You?: Cowboy Simplicities · 11 September 2003

  • Searching for John Ford: A Life by Joseph McBride

• Short Cuts: Slayer Slang and Bling Bling · 21 August 2003

• Valet of the Dolls: Sinatra · 24 July 2003

  • Mr S.: The Last Word on Frank Sinatra by George Jacobs and William Stadiem

• At the Design Museum: Peter Saville · 19 June 2003

• Diary smiles for the President · 20 February 2003

• Still Reeling from My Loss: Lulu & Co · 2 January 2003

  • I Don't Want to Fight by Lulu
  • Billy by Pamela Stephenson
  • Just for the Record by Geri Halliwell
  • Learning to Fly by Victoria Beckham
  • Right from the Start by Gareth Gates
  • Honest by Ulrika Jonsson

• Beast of a Nation: Scotland’s Self-Pity · 31 October 2002

  • Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland by Neal Ascherson

• How to Survive Your Own Stupidity: Homage to Laurel and Hardy · 22 August 2002

  • Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy by Simon Louvish

• Hating Football deserts the Tartan Army · 27 June 2002

• Everything Must Go!: American Beauties · 13 December 2001

  • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  • Ghost World directed by Terry Zwigoff
  • Storytelling directed by Todd Solondz

• The End of British Farming on British farming · 22 March 2001

• Every Sodding Thing · 25 January 2001

• Self-Hugging: A Paean to Boswell · 5 October 2000

  • Boswell's Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman
  • James Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: Research Edition: Vol. II edited by Bruce Redford and Elizabeth Goldring
  • Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author by Lawrence Lipking
  • Dr Johnson's London by Liza Picard

• You gu gu and I gu gu on Vaslav Nijinsky · 20 July 2000

  • The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky edited by Joan Acocella, translated by Kyril Fitzylon
  • Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins

• St Marilyn: The Girl and Me · 6 January 2000

  • The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe
  • The Complete Marilyn Monroe by Adam Victor
  • Marilyn Monroe by Barbara Leaming

• Notes on a Notebook? · 30 September 1999

• Three Women: work in progress · 10 December 1998

• Seventy Years in a Filthy Trade meets E.S. Turner · 15 October 1998

• Good Fibs: Truman Capote · 2 April 1998

  • Truman Capote: In which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by George Plimpton

• Many Andies · 16 October 1997

  • Shoes, Shoes, Shoes by Andy Warhol
  • Style, Style, Style by Andy Warhol
  • Who is Andy Warhol? edited by Colin MacCabe, Mark Francis and Peter Wollen
  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: Billy Name’s Photographs of Andy Warhol’s Factory by Billy Name
  • The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco and the Culture of the Night by Anthony Haden-Guest

• Two Ships · 6 March 1997

• Diary · 12 December 1996

• Me First · 7 March 1996

  • Peter York’s Eighties by Peter York and Charles Jennings

• Oswaldworld · 14 December 1995

  • Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery by Norman Mailer

• Bebop · 5 October 1995

  • Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-56 edited by Ann Charters

• Lost Boys · 8 June 1995

• Thin Ayrshire · 25 May 1995

• Glaswegians · 11 May 1995

• Diary · 9 March 1995

• The Paranoid Sublime · 26 May 1994

  • How late it was, how late by James Kelman

• Gentlemen prefer dogs · 10 February 1994

  • The Dogs by Laura Thompson

• Walk on by · 18 November 1993

• Eating Jesus · 8 July 1993

  • Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

• Diary · 11 March 1993

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