(On a Marxist poet, the Indian New Wave, biography, space, time and the ghosts of knowledge) (Ranbir Kaleka, […]
Category Archive: Essays
It was the woolgathering, of course, the preoccupation with non-human things, the interest in the wrong place… What […]
Music as a Brass Bell falling into the Sea Before she left, you thought you’d understood music. But […]
from Alphabet with Dance of Death, Hans Holbein the Younger Chronically cash-strapped, the Emperor [Maximilian I] stimulated […]
The train brakes, pitching my back into the seat’s plush upright. Neither wholly asleep nor awake, I occupy […]
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” […]
Pádraig Ó Raghallaigh: Three Studies for Figures at the Base of an Extinction Event (after Bacon), 2023, digital photographic triptych, (moulded […]
At 10:23 PM (KST) on December 3, 2024, citing alleged DPRK infiltration in the National Assembly, now-impeached South […]
I. GARDEN EXTERIOR DAY Stems, three-metre high, supported the huge umbels studded with flies and various beetles (later, […]
There is nothing meaningful about failing to sleep. I went to a talk by a novelist where he […]
