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Chris Newlove Horton
Chris Newlove Horton is a writer living in London.

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Prize Entry

April 2016

Chris Newlove Horton

Prize Entry

April 2016

He said, ‘Tell me about yourself.’ He said, ‘Tell me about you.’ He said, ‘Tell me everything. I’m interested.’ He said, ‘I want to...

fiction

April 2015

Heavy

Chris Newlove Horton

fiction

April 2015

It is a two lane road somewhere in North America. The car is pulled onto the shoulder with the...

Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby, like many of her books and essays, is a tapestry of autobiographical narrative, environmental and human history, art and literary criticism, personal reflection, and social and political commentary Great writers have the capacity to evoke the atmosphere of a whole book in a single sentence There are numerous sentences that you could pluck from The Faraway Nearby that operate in this way Individual images, descriptions, myths and stories accrued by Solnit from a vast array of sources and experiences reach far beyond their contexts, feeding into the connective tissue that binds the book, but also somehow encompassing its concerns; the narrative is circular in its themes and structure and stories are returned to, threads picked up Nothing exists in isolation for Solnit, who has written about our co-dependency as communities in A Paradise Built in Hell, and the deep symbiosis between humanity and the natural environment – a recurrent theme in her books, including A Field Guide to Getting Lost and Wanderlust To know the vast expanses of our world and to embrace the unknown and the chance or coincidental is to expand the reaches of the imagination beyond the boundaries of the self These are relationships and philosophies that underpin Solnit’s environmental and human rights activism, and the arguments she makes for one’s responsibility to feel empathy for the plight of humanity and nature alike   A native Californian and former art critic, Solnit first drew attention with her River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, a biography that traces the development of the American West – most notably those cultural goliaths Hollywood and Silicon Valley – to the famous wager made between Muybridge and Leland Stanford in 1878 that led to the photographer’s iconic black-and-white studies of humans and animals in motion Solnit’s environmental and anti-nuclear activism have prompted forays into the Nevada Test Site, investigative explorations into the landscape and history of Yosemite, and the penning of Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West Considered one of the few women to practice a kind of psychogeography, she has produced atlases of San Francisco and New Orleans that reinvent the form, approaching the fabric of urban space as palimpsests of

Contributor

August 2014

Chris Newlove Horton

Contributor

August 2014

Chris Newlove Horton is a writer living in London.

James Richards: Not Blacking Out...

Art

December 2011

Chris Newlove Horton

Art

December 2011

Artist James Richards appropriates audio-visual material gathered from a range of sources, which he then edits into elaborate, fragmented collages.   But whereas his...

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Interview

October 2013

Interview with Chris Petit

Hannah Gregory

Interview

October 2013

Chris Petit likes driving. Most of his films, from his first Radio On (1979), to London Orbital (with Iain...

Art

March 2016

Seeing from behind: Park McArthur

Anna Gritz

Art

March 2016

In a public conversation between Park McArthur and Isla Leaver Yap that accompanied the former’s exhibition Poly at the...

poetry

March 2013

The Humming Lady

James Byrne

poetry

March 2013

The humming lady arrives in a smiling orange smock and orders from the waiter a plate of overripe oranges,...

 

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