Edward Docx

Come to Rodzilla. You're invited to a Ho Down and that's a dance you don't walk away from.

Slow Horses S5 Episode 4 drops today. There's lots you'll love & the last scene is, I promise, a classic of the SH WTF-have-we-done-genre. #SlowHorses

YouTube video by tambien Slow Horses Season 5 (teaser)

We have a date for the new season of Slow Horses ... Sep24.
Best writers' room have ever been in. Watch out for Ep 4.
Here is the trailer: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HEcN...

Reposting this which I wrote for the inauguration. Share if you find illuminating.

Thanks, Dave. Appreciate you taking the time to review. Am writing - slowly - between other commitments another novel.

Sad to hear of the death of Charlotte Raven. She was clever and inventive and scurrilous and quick-witted and always such engaging company.

Yep, brilliant by Edward Docx

If you read only one thing today, please let it be this article by Edward Docx

An amazing essay that uses Shrek, Polyphemus &Grendel to understand the Id of American populism in a Joseph Campbell & literary fashion. Consider Jarry’s #UbuRoi as well. I grew up in Bucks Co & am now in Ithaca so actual &archetypal reflections resonate.

What a profound article - it makes such sense - and until we can each recognise our own inner ‘Donald’, we cannot find a real response that embraces and transcends our darkest impulses.

Fee, fi, fo…Trump: how an ogre won back the White House Large, fearsome, gluttonous and cruel: Donald Trump is the archetypal ogre. So how did he manage to stomp back for a second term?

Considered by some to be the most depressing day of the year, this third Monday in January is about to live up to that notion as the Orange Ogre is elevated to the office of King of the Trolls. If you need something to lighten your mood, have a read of this www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Fee, fi, fo…Trump: how an ogre won back the White House Large, fearsome, gluttonous and cruel: Donald Trump is the archetypal ogre. So how did he manage to stomp back for a second term?

This piece by my old pal Ed Docx sums it all up. I was going to write something about this on substack, but he's done it better. Excellent.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Fee, fi, fo…Trump: how an ogre won back the White House Large, fearsome, gluttonous and cruel: Donald Trump is the archetypal ogre. So how did he manage to stomp back for a second term?

This is brilliant. Congratulations, Ed Docx (and why aren't you on here?). www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Fee, fi, fo…Trump: how an ogre won back the White House Large, fearsome, gluttonous and cruel: Donald Trump is the archetypal ogre. So how did he manage to stomp back for a second term?

A breathtakingly brilliant piece by Edward Docx. Absolutely magnificent. What a writer.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

such a good article - sums it all up

This is superlative.

Fee, fi, fo…Trump: how an ogre won back the White House Large, fearsome, gluttonous and cruel: Donald Trump is the archetypal ogre. So how did he manage to stomp back for a second term?

On Trump:

Fee, fi, fo…Trump: how an ogre won back the White House www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

London this evening.

@newstatesman.com great to read such an engaging classical music review @edwarddocx.bsky.social Please give us more like this!

Let's see how this goes.