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Tausif Noor
Tausif Noor is a critic and doctoral student at the University of California Berkeley, where he studies modern and contemporary art history. His writing on art, literature, and visual culture appears in Artforum, frieze, The Nation, The New York Times and other venues, as well as in artist catalogues and various edited volumes.

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Devil in the Detail: on Leesa Gazi’s ‘Hellfire’

Book Review

July 2021

Tausif Noor

Book Review

July 2021

British-Bangladeshi novelist Tahmima Anam’s debut A Golden Age (2007) tracks the early stirrings of revolution in East Bengal from the 1950s to the climax...

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...

Percival Everett’s new book is an old book Up to now, only a few (Glyph, Wounded and Erasure) of his more than thirty novels, poetry and stories have been published in the UK But, this year London’s Influx Press is issuing I Am Not Sidney Poitier, originally published by Graywolf Press in 2009 The book is the coming-of-age tale of Not Sidney Poitier, who looks like the actor Sidney Poitier and whose life inescapably follows the plots of Sidney Poitier’s cinematic oeuvre, while being not-quite advised by media mogul Ted Turner Through a hilarious and heart-breaking story of class and race, Everett follows the consequences of the logical principle that from the false premise of identity anything follows   Everett actively eschews genre unless it is to parody it His topics of interest seem unbounded, from post-structural theory espoused by a mute toddler (Glyph), to the American West (Half An Inch Of Water) to retellings of classical Greek myths (Zulus and For Her Dark Skin) With books like Erasure and A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as Told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid, he is interested not only in stories but in who is allowed to tell them Telephone, his latest book to be published in the US, has three different versions, explicitly challenging the weak assumption that we as readers can ever have the same experience of reading the same book   Percival Everett is a cowboy, and not only because he trains horses He has the gentleman’s softness I associate with the cowboy uncles I grew up wanting to emulate: self-effacing, gracious, and polite, knowing it is actions that count With me in London and Everett in California, we were coordinating an interview time as COVID-19 began to make our days strange When the State of California advised elderly people to stay in their homes, he emailed me to delay our phone call so that he could drop off groceries to his neighbours By the time we rescheduled we, too, were self-isolating I had to begin our interview by warning that our earnest literary discussion might be soon interrupted by my

Contributor

March 2018

Tausif Noor

Contributor

March 2018

Tausif Noor is a critic and doctoral student at the University of California Berkeley, where he studies modern and contemporary art...

INTERVIEW WITH ANAND PATWARDHAN

Art Review

July 2018

Tausif Noor

Art Review

July 2018

By the late 1990s a right wing government in the shape of a BJP-Shiv Sena alliance had come to power for the first time...
Danh Vo, Take My Breath Away

Art Review

April 2018

Tausif Noor

Art Review

April 2018

‘When you love, you are nailed to the cross,’ says a character in Rainer Fassbinder’s film In a Year of 13 Moons (1978). In...

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Interview

April 2012

Interview with Grant Gee

Evan Harris

Interview

April 2012

As the theatre is relit and the credits roll on Grant Gee’s latest film, Patience (After Sebald), an essay on...

Prize Entry

April 2017

1,040 MPH

Alexander Slotnick

Prize Entry

April 2017

Isaac Goodchrist, Esq. reviewed the 48-hour letter.   …therefore, in the strictly professional opinion of this author, the nation’s...

feature

September 2014

Paris at Night

Matthew Beaumont

feature

September 2014

The picturesque lightshow that, once the sun has set, takes place on the hour, every hour, when the Eiffel...

 

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