What links Beavis and Butt-Head to Kristen Stewart, via David Cronenberg?
Ease yourself into the rabbit hole, with Douglas Coupland and the slacker generation
June 2021
Douglas Coupland on Generation X at 30: ‘Generational trashing is eternal’
Three decades after his debut novel made him the unwilling voice of a generation, the author wonders whether – after Y, Z and now C, for Covid – individuality will become obsolete
July 2018
How we made
Ethan Hawke and Janeane Garofalo: how we made Reality Bites
‘I kept some vodka in my trailer freezer. It certainly didn’t hurt when it came to dancing My Sharona at the gas station’
November 2017
Notebook
Grenfell Tower and the forgotten lessons of the King’s Cross tube fire
Peter Bradshaw
On the 30th anniversary of one of London’s grimmest tragedies it should be recalled that the dangers of flammable panelling were all too clear even then, writes Guardian columnist Peter Bradshaw
July 2012
The Peter Pan generation is the true squeezed middle
Hannah Betts
Hannah Betts: Dismiss us as irresponsible if you must, but there's nothing feckless about questioning the bourgeois status quo
May 2011
Generation X is 50? Whatever
Darragh McManus
Darragh McManus: We Gen-Xers are getting too old to wear ironic T-shirts or pine for Winona Ryder. And that includes you, Douglas Coupland
October 2009
Book club
Guardian book club: week four
Readers' responses to Douglas Coupland's Generation X
September 2009
Book club
Guardian book club: week three
Book club
Guardian book club: Social type is defined by 'generation'
Book club
Guardian book club: Creating distance
Books blog
Guardian book club: Generation X by Douglas Coupland
April 2009
Digested classics
Generation X by Douglas Coupland
'I flew up to Manitoba to see a total eclipse of the sun. It was like the lights went out. This book reads like they never came back on'
August 2003
Close to the edge
From the epoch-defining Generation X to his new work, Hey, Nostradamus!, novelist Douglas Coupland inhabits a world where the optimistic collides with the apocalyptic
