Christopher Turner is a British writer.
He has been a regular contributor to Cabinet magazine since 2004, and to the London Review of Books since 2001.
[1][2] He has also written for The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph, and is the editor of Icon magazine.
[3][4] Turner is the author of Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex (2011), which was long-listed for the Orwell Prize.
[5][6] Turner obtained an MA in anthropology, archaeology and art history from the University of Cambridge, and his PhD in 2000 in humanities and cultural studies from the London Consortium, with a thesis entitled "The Disgusting: The Unrepresentable from Kant to Kristeva."