Spider n. (Skinner thinks this word softened from spinder or spinner, from spin; Junius, with his usual felicity, dreams...

I first encountered Gerard Byrne’s eerily dislocated films at Tate Britain, where 1984 and Beyond (2005–7) was shown on...

My breath’s the wind’s breathless down-stroke hasty claw like the gnarred finger of juniper just now clambering for a...