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A little menace is fine

Art Review

May 2023

Naomi Pearce

Art Review

May 2023

Don’t you ever want the kind of family where you’re just allowed to be…   My brother trails off, his sad blue eyes etched...

Book Review

March 2023

Trash Like This

Megan Nolan

Book Review

March 2023

There’s an anecdote I sometimes wheel out to strangers or dates to convey the sort of child I was,...

Art Review

March 2023

On the Altar of the Rat King

Sam Moore

Art Review

March 2023

Walking into Surrender, Jenkin van Zyl’s installation in which a film loops on the wall of a mock-up of...

Film Review

January 2023

You Don’t Think God Is Sexy?

Philippa Snow

Film Review

January 2023

On the most literal level, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s elliptical, spiritual-cum-sensual movie Teorema (1968) is about an entire family being...

Book Review

August 2022

There are only girls on the internet

Rebecca Liu

Book Review

August 2022

I remember the first time I saw it, like a freshly alert hare alarmed by movement in the distant...

Book Review

July 2022

It’s Personal: Writing and Reading Through Grief

Orit Gat

Book Review

July 2022

1. A spill  I’m drinking coffee in bed and reading The Reactor. I feel so close to everything Nick...

Gut Feelings

Art Review

July 2022

Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Art Review

July 2022

In Hayv Kahraman’s vast painting, ‘Entanglements no.1’ (2021), all life is suspended. Two female figures, weightless though weighed down, are enchained in a series...

Book Review

April 2022

It is Psychotic to Draw a Line Between Two Places: On Bhanu Kapil

Stephanie Sy-Quia

Book Review

April 2022

Bhanu Kapil is a fantastic performer. I saw her at the London Review Bookshop in 2019. She had with...

Book Review

March 2022

WASTELAND IN THE SUN

Shane Jones

Book Review

March 2022

Due to our destructive behaviour, writer E.O. Wilson foresaw humanity soon entering the Eremocene – the ‘Age of Loneliness’....

A Small But Incredibly Valuable Nut

Book Review

February 2022

Rhoda Feng

Book Review

February 2022

At the end of Amitav Ghosh’s SEA OF POPPIES (2008), a character reflects on how her life has been governed not by the sign...

 

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