Fight Club review – prescient, tremendously acted classic still feels overblown
Its ungainly final twist and unreal violence sequences dim a film with a brilliant premise and rage that still stings
October 2022
Can joining Substack allow a ‘midlist’ author the same success as Booker prize winners?
Freedom to write what you like and a chance to build an army of followers, some of whom will pay to read your posts. It worked for Salman Rushdie, so Tim Lott decided to give it a go
January 2022
Fight Club author praises Chinese cut of film: ‘Super wonderful!’
Fight Club gets a new ending in China - and the authorities win
September 2021
Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk to serialise new book on Substack
Newsletter platform pays upfront sum for Greener Pastures, with no strings attached over what he writes
February 2020
Top 10s
Top 10 books about imaginary friends
From Lewis Carroll to Vladimir Nabokov and Shirley Jackson, the best of these stories combine fantasy with very real psychology
January 2020
'No chapter was longer than a music video’: Chuck Palahniuk on how he wrote Fight Club
Facing losing his tiny house that received no television or radio signal, Palahniuk could only read or write …
October 2019
Fight Club at 20: the prescience and power of David Fincher's drama
The 1999 adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s anarchist novel was misunderstood by some as an agent of chaos but it remains an eerily forward-facing film
August 2018
Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk review – blood and guts, but no heart
Millennials get their revenge in this violent dystopian satire from the Fight Club author, but where’s the passion?
July 2018
Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk on his book becoming a bible for the incel movement
Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk review – all punched out
May 2018
Chuck Palahniuk 'close to broke' as agent's accountant faces fraud charges
Fight Club author says his income has dwindled, as Darin Webb is charged with embezzling $3.4m from his literary agency
January 2017
Top 10s
Top 10 unreliable narrators
From Edgar Allan Poe to Gillian Flynn, storytellers who cannot be trusted are great devices for writers, and a compelling challenge for readers
December 2016
Reading group
First rule of Fight Club: no one talks about the quality of the writing
Chuck Palahniuk’s novel is a tantalising exploration of male identity politics, therapy-culture and violence – but let’s look at the skill behind the book
Reading group
Fight Club's dark fantasies have become an even darker reality
Chuck Palahniuk’s novel once seemed far-fetched, but two decades on its ugly vision of violent, paranoid men seems all too close to the world around us
Reading group
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk steps up for December's reading group
Whether we read it as a continuation of The Great Gatsby or a premonition of the alt-right, there’s a lot to discuss
June 2016
Chuck Palahniuk to publish 'provocative' colouring-in book
Fight Club author, whose previous work has made people faint at public readings, to publish Bait – eight stories in the famously ‘mindful’ genre
April 2016
Shortcuts
The celebrities who reply to every letter
David Walliams’s enthusiasm for replying to all his fanmail has been thwarted by a stolen box of post. Who else makes the effort for fans who put pen to paper?
October 2015
The Subjects review – Australian anti-superhero film an easy pill to swallow
Robert Mond overcomes a small budget to produce an antidote to the standard cookie cutter superhero flick that’s full of good, if not fully realised, ideas
August 2015
Readers recommend
Readers recommend: songs about mood-changing music
A rush of joy? Or moved to tears? Suggest songs with lyrics that refer to other songs or music that can bring about a change in state of mind or emotion, says Peter Kimpton
