Articles from Neil Gaiman

‘One spring morning my dad vanished’: the son of poet Heathcote Williams looks back

Just after becoming a new father, the author and dramatist abandoned his family. Charlie Gilmour, his son, tries to solve the riddle of the man he never really knew
Neil Gaiman
Writer, Screenwriter
@CharlieGilmour is a brilliant writer. (His mum is magnificent author @PollySamson.) He writes here about his birth father, the complex & frustrating poet Heathcote Williams. Charlie's glorious book, about fathers & a magpie, Featherhood, is out soon.
Articles from Neil Gaiman

Ted Chiang Explains the Disaster Novel We All Suddenly Live In

The esteemed science fiction author on how we may never go "back to normal"—and why that might be a good thing
Neil Gaiman
Writer, Screenwriter
"What we're living through is only partly a disaster novel; it's also—and perhaps mostly—a grotesque political satire."
Articles from Neil Gaiman

History of slutshaming, after a woman told my employers I was a SLAG

My mum always asks me to give her a ring to let her know I’ve got home safely. She’s done this since I moved out at 18, but recently, she’s started asking me to do the same whenever I log on to social media; did I get home safely?
Neil Gaiman
Writer, Screenwriter
Terrific article. And reading the Womens' anti-suffrage copy was fascinating.