Complicated historical moments provide fertile ground for rhetorical simplicity, a sellers’ market for the felicitous use of allegory […]
Category Archive: Essays
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 […]
In late 2017 I sat at a rickety table in a Helsinki outdoor market, blinded by the low […]
An essay on Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet Jealousy (adjective) 1. Jealousy is the feeling of anger or bitterness […]
“Mime is the only national language,” wrote the Chilean doctor Hernán Romero in 1956, referring to India. Though […]
A biographical accident. I don’t know what time it is. I don’t know the day, the month, nor […]
Some time ago I understood those verses in which Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote that death is not in […]
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