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Kevin Brazil
Kevin Brazil is a writer and critic who lives in London. His writing has appeared in Granta, The White Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Art Review, art-agenda, Studio International, and elsewhere. He is writing a book about queer happiness.

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Interview with Sianne Ngai

Interview

October 2020

Kevin Brazil

Interview

October 2020

Over the past fifteen years, Sianne Ngai has created a taxonomy of the aesthetic features of contemporary capitalism: the emotions it provokes, the judgements...

Essay

Issue No. 28

Fear of a Gay Planet

Kevin Brazil

Essay

Issue No. 28

In Robert Ferro’s 1988 novel Second Son, Mark Valerian suffers from an unnamed illness afflicting gay men, spread by...

i’m running out of data on the train everyone is feeling particularly lonely it isn’t enough everyone & me     ear plugged & stirring    is listening to something considering charts & cadence of feet bounce it is likely we are listening to Drake   Drake says    sometimes i feel good sometimes i don’t   he knows that until he bursts from carbs or cliché we will love him always Drake has been on our minds now for some fourhundredtwenty weeks at least everyone & Drake is wearing t-shirts with Drake lyrics printed on them we are signing love letters and suicide notes with Drakeisms     it isn’t enough wake up mumbling something Drake drool on our pillow wonder where else still we can find traces of him we’re only now just learning   Drake says    more life more everything always more   feeding every hour on the hour all the amenities the biggest residential pool on the planet everybody in it my critics & my friends fat happy house my children & everybody loving me the pictures portrait of the artist eating    portrait of the artist in the biggest residential pool on the planet fat & happy Drake’s ear is to the zeitgeist     listening for something out there shooting his shot into space      waiting it isn’t enough to hold everybody & their faces    sing it there are so many people outside that haven’t heard it yet i don’t know if they can wait   how long Drake says     i do not know what permanence is i’m only now just learning i’m upset     doing the best that i can to be heard i need more content

Contributor

March 2018

Kevin Brazil

Contributor

March 2018

Kevin Brazil is a writer and critic who lives in London. His writing has appeared in Granta, The White Review, the London...

Interview with Terre Thaemlitz

Interview

March 2018

Kevin Brazil

Interview

March 2018

In the first room of Terre Thaemlitz’s 2017 exhibition ‘INTERSTICES’, at Auto Italia in London, columns of white text ran across one wall. Thaemlitz...

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poetry

May 2012

FINALLY RICH

Sam Riviere

poetry

May 2012

I got a job I got a job writing poems oh hi I never met you before going to...

fiction

April 2013

The Taxidermist

Olivia Heal

fiction

April 2013

I did not want to walk. The day was dull. But imperative or impulsion pushed me out, onto the...

feature

June 2014

A Grenade for River Plate

Juan Pablo Meneses

TR. Jethro Soutar

feature

June 2014

El Polaco appears brandishing his Stanley, as he lovingly calls his pocket knife. Five young hooligans huddle round him...

 

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