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Rose McLaren is an artist in London.



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Talk Into My Bullet Hole

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July 2015

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?’ ‘Oh, I don’t...

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May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

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May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

Author of the novels La noche del aguafiestas and the experimental Ejercicios para hacer de la esterilidad virtud, Antón Arrufat is considered by many to be Cuba’s greatest living writer; in 2000 he was awarded the National Prize for Literature, the country’s highest honour The award represents an extraordinary change in fortunes for an author who spent much of his writing life in ostracism, accused of betraying the ideals of the Revolution   The poet, editor, novelist, essayist and playwright was born in 1935 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba’s second city He went to a Jesuit school there (the same one attended by the Castro brothers a decade before) before moving to Havana at the age of 11 to continue his studies He came to know many of the country’s leading artists and writers including José Lezama Lima, editor of the influential arts and literature journal Orígenes and author of the masterwork Paradiso, often mentioned in the same breath as Carlos Fuentes’s The Death of Artemio Cruz, Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch, Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Time of the Hero at the vanguard of the so-called ‘Latin American boom’ of the 1960s   After having spent time in New York in the late fifties, Arrufat returned to Cuba after the triumph of the revolution and worked, alongside writer friends such as Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Virgilio Piñera, on new publications such as the hugely influential Lunes de Revolución Although his name was subsequently expunged from the official histories of that institution, Arrufat – along with Fausto Masó – founded the magazine of Casa de las Américas in 1960, working there until 1965 when he was dismissed for publishing a homoerotic poem by José Triana and for issuing the invite to Allen Ginsberg that led to his infamous trip to Havana   However, in 1968 Arrufat’s life changed when he was implicated in the infamous ‘Padilla Affair’, a scandal which would turn much of the world’s intellectual community against the Castroist regime Both Heberto Padilla and Arrufat won state-sanctioned prizes that year: Padilla for his poetry collection Out of

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August 2014

Rose McLaren

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August 2014

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.

The Prosaic Sublime of Béla Tarr

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Issue No. 6

Rose McLaren

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Issue No. 6

I have to recognise it’s cosmical; the shit is cosmical. It’s not just social, it’s not just ontological, it’s really huge. And that’s why we...
Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

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February 2012

Rose McLaren

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February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer half way through Zona. Such...

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Interview

June 2015

Interview with Moyra Davey

Hannah Gregory

Interview

June 2015

One way to think about Moyra Davey’s way of working across photography, film and text is in terms of...

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Issue No. 5

Interview with Ivan Vladislavić

Jan Steyn

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Issue No. 5

Ivan Vladislavić is one of a handful of writers working in South Africa after apartheid whose work will still...

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March 2014

The Garden of Credit Analyst Filton

Martin Monahan

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March 2014

Ivan Filton had retired early. ‘I have been working a lot on my garden,’ declared Ivan Filton. ‘This is...

 

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