The inanimate toy repeats the still life’s theme of arrested life, the life of the tableau. But once […]
Category Archive: Essays & features
From ‘What is Polari?’: Polari is playful, quick and clever – it’s a constantly evolving language of fast put-downs, […]
Extract One: Other Rooms It’s strange to live with a person you have never seen. Well, I had […]
A GROWING EVIL the homeless have always been with us. Sometimes we see them, but more often they […]
I have always been aware of the slight curvature in my back. It’s not so much because of […]
Complicated historical moments provide fertile ground for rhetorical simplicity, a sellers’ market for the felicitous use of allegory […]
The night she died I was smoking the drugs she’d given me before returning to the States. She […]
I’m interested in how new performances can fuck up and expose old performances. Gender need not reenact meanings […]
An extract from Alan Lord’s forthcoming memoir, which gives an insight into the avant-garde literary scene of the […]
‘My mission is to spark joy in the world through tidying’, Marie Kondo explains. ‘Choose items that spark […]
