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Andrea Lawlor’s ‘Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl’

Book Review

July 2019

Juliet Jacques

Book Review

July 2019

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is a cross-over novel. Not only in the sense that its protagonist, Paul, shifts continually between...

Art Review

June 2019

Jonathas de Andrade, One to One

William Harris

Art Review

June 2019

A collection of workers’ shirts, mounted like shopping displays and gathered into the regimented, brightly coloured rows that might...

Book Review

May 2019

Can Xue’s ‘Love in the New Millennium’

Jay Gao

Book Review

May 2019

Over the last thirty years Can Xue has created an astonishing body of avant-garde literature exploring the limits of...

Art Review

May 2019

Simone Fattal, Works and Days

Tausif Noor

Art Review

May 2019

For the last five decades, Simone Fattal has produced works that refract the particularities of the present vis-à-vis a...

Book Review

May 2019

Maria Gainza’s ‘Optic Nerve’

Lauren Elkin

Book Review

May 2019

In his foreword to A Thousand Plateaus, on the pleasures of philosophy, and of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy in...

Book Review

May 2019

Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Lost Children Archive’

Dennis Zhou

Book Review

May 2019

In the summer of 2015, when thousands of children were arriving in the United States every month from Honduras,...

Virginie Despentes’ ‘Vernon Subutex Two’

Book Review

April 2019

Roisin Kiberd

Book Review

April 2019

In King-Kong Theory (2006), her autobiography and feminist manifesto, Virginie Despentes describes a job she’d held almost two decades earlier. In 1989, aged twenty,...

Art Review

April 2019

How Chicago! Imagists 1960s and 70s

Chloë Ashby

Art Review

April 2019

At times, the artwork of the Chicago Imagists verges on the gross: that big green bogey dangling from the...

Art Review

April 2019

Oscar Wilde Temple, Studio Voltaire

Leon Craig

Art Review

April 2019

The light is dim, the air richly scented. Little purple tea lights flicker in the votive candle rack and...

Postcards from Peripheral France

Book Review

April 2019

Elsa Court

Book Review

April 2019

‘When I arrived in Paris for school, all these bourgeois kids would say Eddy Bellegueule, what a funny name.’   A year before the...

 

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