Douglas Coupland

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Generation Z’s idol (and villain) Conor McGregor at the UFC 205 weigh-ins at New York’s Madison Square Garden in November 2016. Photograph: Michael Reaves/Getty Images
‘Generation Z’ comes of age, but spare a thought for inbetweeners

This is a bit awkward, but Millennials are getting on a bit. According to some definitions, the youngest ones turn 22 this year. And as everybody olde(...)

Friends: the series was the defining fiction of the Generation X ascendency, a show that revelled in narcissism
I hate emojis and Instagram breakfasts but not millennials

Apparently, everyone over a certain age is now supposed to hate millennials. We have, in this newspaper, recently seen an article suggesting that mi(...)

Author Alain de Botton (R) makes notes during his week as writer-in-residence at Heathrow Airport, west London, on August 20, 2009.
Alain de Botton and Douglas Coupland: 21st-century industrial espionage

Internet research has convinced some we can know everything. But away from Google’s spoon dipped into Wikipedia’s stockpot, the idea of the mystery of(...)

Chris Judge’s best books of the year
  • Books
  • November 30, 2013, 06:00

I generally await the release of new Douglas Coupland books the way I used to with new albums by favourite bands way back when. Some I love and som(...)