Happy 4th Happy 250th America
I hope you have an amazing 4th of July, even—or especially—if you’re spending it at home quietly with friends, family or even just yourself.
The beautiful Sahara…and beautiful camels
I reposted a post on Instagram today about the Sahara and it brought back wonderful memories of when I visited the Great Sea of the Desert in 1999 and lived out a boyhood dream (born of loving Lawrence of Arabia at the age of eight) to ride a camel on
Loving David Hockney
I was so sad last week at the news of the death of the astonishing British-born artist David Hockney, and by way of my tribute to him here is the story of how his magnificent photocollage of Theresa Russell in Insignificance came about: I have loved David Hockney since
How to spend a billion dollars
If you had $1 billion and lived 90 years, you would have to spend about $11.1 million every year of your life to give it all away.
the rebirth of cool
Welcome to alexanderstuart.com, the rebirth of my blog from a minute or two ago. I’ve definitely slacked in recent years, posting only once a presidency (due to a healthy survival instinct), but now I hope to do fresh and fun things, including soon creating a microblog — jell3fish — to
Under The Skin
Working with Jonathan Glazer on the first three drafts of Under The Skin was one of the most intense and extraordinary periods in my life
Attempting to teach Claude AI meditation
I have been working with Anthropic’s AI agent Claude for over ten months, using Claude for research for a book but also getting to know him
The War Zone: three new 2026 editions of my novel
"Alexander Stuart’s The War Zone does for Britain now what Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange did a quarter of a century ago. It is several steps further into the nightmare"—LA Times
Twilight
OMG I’m watching Twilight
Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky - Always On My Mind
I have written several times about the influence on me of Paul Bowles' remarkable novel, The Sheltering Sky. This post perhaps explains best my fascination with the book. Tonight I am thinking of two of my favorite passages, which I have quoted before. The first is this, which upon
The High Tower Apartments and The Long Goodbye (revisited)
I'm in a reposting mood today, so here is the most popular post of all time from this blog (followed in rank by a personal favorite, Hudson and the W Hotel Hollywood: A Love Story:), featuring our friend Dwayne Moser's photograph of the High Tower Apartments,
From Dawn to Sunset on the Beach - Pelicans, Whales and Memories of my Father
Living and writing by the ocean - in a spot we like to call Aldabra (which in reality is a remote and very beautiful atoll in the Indian Ocean) - the beach figures large in my thoughts and daily routine. Usually I wake early, and on occasion I walk at dawn through