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Queen's Evidence
The US metrosexual makeover TV series ‘Queer Eye For the Straight Guy’ is coming to Britain but maybe gays aren’t quite so fabulous after all. 'Metrosexual daddy' Mark Simpson presents the case for the prosecution.
- Guardian 1/11/03
E's not worth it, dear
In the 19th Century the female nude supplanted the male. But the boy is back - and Germaine Greer's welcome to him, says Mark Simpson - Independent on Sunday 19/10/03
You senseless things
For a band who invented glam rock and punk - and remoulded the entire culture in their own image - the Rolling Stones are surprisingly lacking in insight. For Mark Simpson, it's the least cool players in the narrative who have the most to say. Independent on Sunday 21 September 2003
Metrosexuality: a textually transmitted disease
Email Q&A with Mark Simpson on his bastard child the 'metrosexual' with ‘The St Louis Dispatch’ (US), ‘Zapp’ (Holland), ‘The Straits Times’ (Singapore) and ‘OM Magazine’ (Russia) - Sept 2003
The colour of whiteness
Kodachrome film was devised to flatter caucasian skin. Mark Simpson explains how 'colorisation' revolutionised our world
'Independent on Sunday', 14/09/03
Global Cooling
Mark Simpson on the rise and rise of ‘American air’.
The Times Magazine 23/8/03
Becks, the virus
He's one of the most famous humans who has ever lived -- even though he's not that cute, not that smart and not that great a soccer player. Mark Simpson on the bizarre Beckham epidemic Salon.com 06/07/03
Enemy of the peuple
A new 'stand up history of the French Revolution' is enough to make Mark Simpson take to the streets. As a counter-comedy reactionary.
Comedian in Jack Boots
Is it possible to take Benito Mussolini seriously? Mark Simpson discovers that the clownish dictator always had ardent, frighteningly serious fans – and this biographer is another.
Independent on Sunday 29 June 2003
Metrosexual? I think I've heard that one before... Independent on Sunday, 22/6/03
Why doesn't America love Robbie Williams?
Especially when he love-hates himself so much? EMI's $120 million wannabe-Bowie megaflop symbolizes the desolate state of 21st century British pop culture, a realm of "wankers" and second-rate imitation Americans. Salon.com
His Majesty the Baby
Isn't it about time Eminem grew up? Mark Simpson on the rapper who elevated spoilt tantrums into an art form.
Independent on Sunday 27/04/2003
Meet the Metrosexual
"He may be homosexual, he may be heterosexual, he may even be bisexual. But all this is immaterial, since he has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual aim." Mark Simpson on Salon.com, July 2002
'Capt. Kirk's bulging trousers
A touring exhibition of genuine "Star Trek" gimcracks reminds Mark Simpson of the immense virility of the original Shatner/Nimoy series -- and the p.c. limpness of all the spinoffs. Salon.com 26/2/03
Hamlet of the Weights Room
Ingmar Bergman meets Arnie: Mark Simpson grapples with a Swedish intellectual down at the gym.Independent on Sunday 19/1/03
Chivalry & Showbiz
The lively tale of a charming bandit and proto-terrorist prompts Mark Simpson to wonder why we’re still thrilled by ruffians - Independent on Sunday 5/1/03
The World According to Mark Simpson
Review and profile of Simpson's work by The Hanging Judge in Inches magazine (Feb 2003): "In the past decade, British columnist Mark Simpson has made a name for himself as a smooth but thuggish homo provocateur...."
Omi Palones in Paris
Mark Simpson relives the Belle Epoque and enjoys a bit of intellectual spit-roasting. Independent on Sunday
St. Augustine or Sigmund: Which One's the Daddy?
If Viagra has turned the penis into a `punctureproof balloon', does that mean it's not funny any more wonders Mark Simpson? - Independent on Sunday 2002
Houston, We Have a Problem
Whitney had it all. The looks, the heritage and that elemental voice. So where did it all go so wrong? Mark Simpson on the diva who fell to earth - Independent on Sunday.
The Acceptable Prejudice
Feminism may have triumphed, but Mark Simpson finds the denigration of men has as much to do with money as ideology. Independent on Sunday
Heaven Knows if He's Miserable Now
Profile of Morrissey by Simpson - Independent on Sunday
Sex Terror
"MAGNIFICENT.... Open Simpson's new book at any point, as many times as you want, and you'll find the sort of gem-like sentences that Zadie Smith would give her white teeth for."
- Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday.
Books
The Simpsonian back-catalogue:
Male Impersonators
It's a Queer World
Anti-Gay
The Queen is Dead
Sex Terror
Saint Morrissey
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