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Kevin Brazil
Kevin Brazil is a writer and critic who lives in London. His writing has appeared in Granta, The White Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Art Review, art-agenda, Studio International, and elsewhere. He is writing a book about queer happiness.

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Interview with Sianne Ngai

Interview

October 2020

Kevin Brazil

Interview

October 2020

Over the past fifteen years, Sianne Ngai has created a taxonomy of the aesthetic features of contemporary capitalism: the emotions it provokes, the judgements...

Essay

Issue No. 28

Fear of a Gay Planet

Kevin Brazil

Essay

Issue No. 28

In Robert Ferro’s 1988 novel Second Son, Mark Valerian suffers from an unnamed illness afflicting gay men, spread by...

I am standing in front of a room full of people reading out a story The room is dark I am wearing a head torch so I can read the story My hands are shaking The story is about me getting drunk and having sex with a person A lot of people in the room know about me getting drunk and having sex with a person I did not know the name of the person I had sex with   After I have read the story I wander round the room and don’t know what to say I have already said over a thousand words in a row Sometimes when I approach a group of people one of them will say something positive and either clasp my arm briefly or touch the upper section of my arm I am approaching as many groups of people as possible so I get the highest number of positive things said to me I am feeling happy This is partly because I have been told a lot of positive things but also because I have drunk around five bottles of beer The number of people in the room is decreasing The amount of beer in the room has already decreased to zero This is worrying as the two main things I want are alcohol and people   There is a person I want a lot standing and talking about some objects I arranged on and near a wall I think that I should go and talk to the person If I crashed into the person while we were both in cars I would definitely talk to the person about the arrangement of solid waves in the shell of their vehicle, perhaps implying that they should permit the serendipitous beauty of the incident to assuage their feelings I go to talk to the person The person did not see me say over a thousand words in a row so I feel like they are less likely to object to me talking to them The person does not know that I arranged the objects on the wall but expresses

Contributor

March 2018

Kevin Brazil

Contributor

March 2018

Kevin Brazil is a writer and critic who lives in London. His writing has appeared in Granta, The White Review, the London...

Interview with Terre Thaemlitz

Interview

March 2018

Kevin Brazil

Interview

March 2018

In the first room of Terre Thaemlitz’s 2017 exhibition ‘INTERSTICES’, at Auto Italia in London, columns of white text ran across one wall. Thaemlitz...

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Interview

September 2015

Interview with Allison Katz

Frances Loeffler

Interview

September 2015

With the desire to get to know an artist’s work comes the impulse to stick one’s nose in. The...

poetry

January 2016

Sex-Desert

Galina Rymbu

TR. Joan Brooks

poetry

January 2016

I’m screaming lying alone in this settlement     everything empty only emptiness sex – is a desert  ...

feature

January 2016

About Renata Adler’s Speedboat

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

TR. Shaun Whiteside

feature

January 2016

  Best known for his bestselling biography of Mozart, Wolfgang Hildesheimer was a polymathic novelist, translator, painter and dramatist. A...

 

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