Nigel Bowen
Despite having several university degrees, Nigel Bowen has spent the last decade writing for men’s magazines and is currently Chief Subeditor of GQ Australia. A gloomy Generation Xer deeply aggrieved by the chokehold the baby boomers have maintained on the levers of power for the last four decades, he nonetheless can’t kick his shameful fascination with the Fifties and Sixties. He interviewed Matthew Weiner, the genius behind Mad Men, for the latest issue of GQ.
Articles by Nigel Bowen
Life will be Swede when I pen my allegorical bestseller
It’s every hack journo’s secret fantasy to pen a novel. Given that it can only be a matter of months…... Read more
Is the pick-up movement men’s answer to feminism?
Ever since second-wave feminism kicked off four decades ago, people have been wondering if an equivalent movement for men would…... Read more
Warmist or denier, ye shall pay for your beliefs
The most interesting thing I’ve read all year about the climate-change debate is a book that has nothing directly to…... Read more
Boganville and Hipstertown aren’t so far apart
A year ago, my wife and I underwent a hipster-to-bogan metamorphosis. Faced with the choice of (a) continuing to service…... Read more
Slaves to the dumbocracy, and getting dumber
A quarter of a century ago, American academic Neil Postman released a book called Amusing Ourselves to Death, which argued…... Read more
It’s the Return of the Battle of the Sexes
For those of certain age (that is, old enough to have spent any time on a university campus between the…... Read more
Welcome to Gattaca: What’s in your genes?
There are a few things I’d like to share. I’m at greater than normal risk of developing Crohn’s disease, Tourette…... Read more
Is it time the latte-sippers left the bogans’ party?
There has been much bipartisan rejoicing, about the Greens inability to win seats in their latte-belt stomping ground. The glee…... Read more
Was Siimon the original Gen Yer?
For the last quarter of a century, it’s been something of a national pastime to bag ad man Siimon Reynolds…... Read more
I, for one, welcome our new bogan overlords
Come Christmas Day, many members of the book-reading class are likely to wake up to find a copy of Things…... Read more
Slim pickings for libertarians
Whoever loses tomorrow, one thing is certain – this election will not be a victory for any major political party’s…... Read more
The Left shouldn’t have ditched the Hitch
Christopher Hitchens is dying. That the 61-year-old’s body has finally given out after four decades of heavy smoking and drinking…... Read more
An open letter to Sex and the City creator Darren Star
We’re the first to admit we heterosexual blokes haven’t always treated you, our fabulous homosexual brothers, with the respect and…... Read more
Conroy’s filter has nothing on the next technology scare
I’ve got two words for those working themselves into supernovas of incandescent cyber rage over Conroy’s internet filtering scheme: The…... Read more
Swingers (not the voting kind) need to leave the closet
For a subculture obsessed with “absolute discretion”, Australia’s swingers haven’t had much luck in flying under the radar recently. In…... Read more
Where are all the angry white mad men?
It’s a show that deals with the most ideologically contested decade in living memory, but neither the Left nor Right…... Read more
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