Alex Niven
Alex Niven is a writer from the north-east of England. He writes regularly for the Guardian , Tribune and New Statesman , and has also contributed to publications including the New York Times , the Independent , Pitchfork, The Face and VICE . As well as Folk Opposition (Zero, 2011), he is the author of an instalment in Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series (on Definitely Maybe by Oasis, 2014) and New Model Island (Repeater, 2019), a critically acclaimed memoir of Englishness and regional identity....See more
Alex Niven is a writer from the north-east of England. He writes regularly for the Guardian , Tribune and New Statesman , and has also contributed to publications including the New York Times , the Independent , Pitchfork, The Face and VICE . As well as Folk Opposition (Zero, 2011), he is the author of an instalment in Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series (on Definitely Maybe by Oasis, 2014) and New Model Island (Repeater, 2019), a critically acclaimed memoir of Englishness and regional identity. Currently Lecturer in English Literature at Newcastle University, he helped to start the radical publisher Repeater Books in 2014. See less