Author Archives: Alex Clark

About Alex Clark

Alex Clark is a freelance journalist living in London, writing about books, arts, football and a whole host of other things for papers such as The Guardian and The Observer. She is also editor at large of Union Books and the former editor of Granta.

The Sun Always Shines on TV

In which Alex Clark ponders the problems of planning your couch-life Continue reading

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The V Word: From Down There to Over Here, London and Michigan United

Alex Clark picks apart vagina controversies, from names to cleanliness, Femfresh and froo froo. It’s a hoo haa. Seriously. Continue reading

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Be Not Afeard; The Isle is Full of Noises

England looks in the mirror, and what looks back? Alex Clark ponders if it’s Lionel Asbo or Love, Actually. Continue reading

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Jubilee: Why Have I Been Invited?

God Save the Queen… Tea at Buckingham Palace, Irish funerals, Republican sympathies and Wilko Johnson. Alex Clark presents three vignettes of English life in the week of the Jubilee. Continue reading

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I Love the Smell of Testosterone in the Morning

In which Alex Clark comes clean about her unsavoury habit of watching boys fight on the internet. Continue reading

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I Am Furious Orange

In which Alex Clark gives up smoking and uses the internet as free anger management therapy. Continue reading

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Season Finale

In which Alex Clark settles down to enjoy a quiet afternoon in front of the football and explains just how football is not football. Not where it concerns the Football Association season end, that is. Continue reading

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