Idle Idol – Henry Miller

From Idler 19, 1997

Joshua Glenn on the writer who freed himself from the cocksucking corporation and learned how to live.

Henry Valentine Miller, born in 1891, grew up in a rough part of Brooklyn, New York. Years later, he …

Idle Idol – Eric Cantona

Eric Cantona, says ROBERT NEWMAN, has always taken on the system and won. Which is what makes him a great idol for our times.
From Idler issue 8, February – March 1995

Eric Cantona once said that for him football …

In conversation with David Soul

From Idler 24, Summer 1998

Hutch is alive and well and living in Maida Vale. And he’s got a few things on his mind, as Louis Theroux discovers.
Taken from Idler 24, Summer 1998

I drove to my appointment with …

In conversation with Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles: not beat yet
by Marcel Theroux
Taken from Idler issue 3, 1993

Friend of the beatniks, poet, composer, author of The Sheltering Sky: the octogenarian Paul Bowles was still working and still dressing like a gentleman when Marcel …

Idle Idol – Paul Lafargue

From Idler 7 December 1994

The French labour activist dreamed of a three hour day for everyone, was thrown in prison for subversion and in 1883 wrote a searing attack on the work ethic called The Right to be Lazy.…