The best living essayist writing in English

He's brilliant

Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored

Though Phillips's territory is complication, he reports back from his travels in the simplest of words. He is perhaps single-handedly continuing the tradition of the world's best essayists

Phillips radiates infectious charm

Phillipsian' would evoke a vivid, paradoxical style that led you to think that you had picked up an idea by the head, only to find you were holding it by the tail.

Handler is the leading light of Slapper Lit... We learn about Handler's past conquests: the stripper with romantic pretensions; the midget who proves more useful as a pillow; the under-endowed teetotaller; the closet gynaecologist. Handler works her way through the lot with gleeful abandon...the gorgeous blonde who has single handedly out-raunched Raunch Culture

Hilarious

Fascinating... Brutally honest

As fascinating as it is alarming . . . Read it. Apply it

Truly fascinating

Highly articulate … Her memories are real, not recovered