Andrew O’Hagan

Andrew O’Hagan is finishing a new novel.

In the LRB Archive:

• So Many Handbags, So Little Time: The Bling Ring · 20 June 2013

  • The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales

• Smiles Better: Glasgow v. Edinburgh · 23 May 2013

  • On Glasgow and Edinburgh by Robert Crawford

• Short Cuts · 21 February 2013

• Light Entertainment: Our Paedophile Culture · 8 November 2012

• Travelling Southwards: ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ · 19 July 2012

  • Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

• Issues for His Prose Style: Hemingway · 7 June 2012

  • The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Vol. I, 1907-22 edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert Trogdon

• At the National Portrait Gallery: Lucian Freud · 26 April 2012

• Diary: At the Olympic Park · 9 February 2012

• Short Cuts: ‘The ARRSE Guide’ · 1 December 2011

• Short Cuts: Tweeting at an Execution · 6 October 2011

• Rose on the Run: Beryl Bainbridge · 14 July 2011

  • The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge

• The Excursions · 16 June 2011

• Short Cuts: On the Bus · 28 April 2011

• Diary: Dr Macgregor’s Diagnosis · 3 March 2011

• They don’t say that about Idi Amin: Bellow Whinges · 6 January 2011

  • Saul Bellow: Letters edited by Benjamin Taylor

• Short Cuts: The 1970s · 18 November 2010

• Melinda and Sandy: Oprah · 4 November 2010

  • Oprah: A Biography by Kitty Kelley

• Short Cuts: With the Hackerati · 19 August 2010

• Short Cuts: HBO · 10 June 2010

• Short Cuts: The Happiness Project · 22 April 2010

• Diary: Jon Venables · 25 March 2010

• Goodbye Moon: Me and the Moon · 25 February 2010

  • The Book of the Moon by Rick Stroud
  • Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon by Craig Nelson
  • Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon by Buzz Aldrin, with Ken Abraham

• Diary: Grief and the Cameras · 3 December 2009

• 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: 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: 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: smile 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

• Karel Reisz RememberedAndrew O’Hagan, Michael Wood, Alan Sillitoe, Freddie Francis, Stephen Frears, Vanessa Redgrave, David Warner, John Lahr, James Toback, Roger Spottiswoode, Meryl Streep, John Bloom, Bernard Jacobson, Tom Murphy, Penelope Wilton, Rosaleen Linehan, John Guare · 12 December 2002

• 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: deserting the Tartan Army · 27 June 2002

• The War on Terrorism: Is There an Alternative? · 15 May 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: 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: 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: 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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