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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...

 ‘ and the siege dissolved to peace, and the horsemen all rode down in sight of the waters’  St John of the Cross     Friday, March 20 As I saw the lights of Mexico City spread out below us before landing I caught myself mentally humming the tune of ‘Volver’ – an unbearable affectation Just as Carlos Gardel sings in that classic tango the snows of time have silvered my temples His turned silver because he was away for twenty years, mine because premature gray hair runs in my family: I’m condemned to suffer low-impact  drama I remembered my grandfather saying that Agustín Lara was a hick whose one single virtue was that he liberated us from the tango thanks to his impossible talent for composing boleros Then I forced myself to think about Guadalupe Trigo, the later improviser of boleros, who says that at night the city dresses up like a mariachi But that doesn’t really describe it: it’s more like the Milky Way, a sacred host of fire which you must swallow whole, without – chewing I wonder what Teresa would think if she could see me with so much gray hair Since I bought a computer for my apartment and managed to get myself online, I’ve been back in touch with el Distrito Federal They tell me that she’s been living in Mexico ever since she broke up with my student, that when she runs into one of our mutual acquaintances she always asks about me I doubt that she’s weathered the silent ravages of time very well either   My mother and my sister picked me up at the airport I will stay with them for the weekend and on Monday I’ll go over to Raul’s apartment: my family’s house is too crowded – there I’ll be better able to practice the monkish discipline to which I’m accustomed They’re not happy with the idea, but they realise that it’s better than nothing I’m going to stay with Raul through the week, then

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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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April 2013

Popular Mechanics

Gareth Dickson

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April 2013

In simple terms, the process of combustion creates energy that is converted into motion. The ignition by the spark...

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Issue No. 2

Interview with Michael Hardt

Chris Catanese

Karim Wissa

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Issue No. 2

Michael Hardt is a philosopher and theorist best known for his collaboration with Antonio Negri on a trilogy of...

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May 2012

Film: Palestine Festival of Literature

Omar Robert Hamilton

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May 2012

Resistance needs to be recorded. Resistance needs symbols: ideas that can travel faster than speech, last longer than memory....

 

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