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.
Alexander Stuart
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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
Scarlett Johansson
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