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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...

look at your kitchen look at your kitchen oh my god look at your kitchen it’s delightful only wait ’til you hear what my husband said how it’s all very well if all you’ve got to do is look after the kids i mean he doesn’t have to get up in the night i mean he doesn’t have to get up in the morning so i get it in early: going from being a full-time event manager with a social life, a very fulfilling life, to being a full-time mum is a big shift i spend a lot of time mourning my old life i mean i’m very happy i wouldn’t change anything but it’s hard it’s difficult it’s lonely although i’m doing the most important job in the world i feel like a sack of shit but it’s fine i’ve been volunteering not doing a huge amount cold calling funny cos thats why i had a baby in the first place to get away from that shit and then the festival was this weekend for me, it was work i was going to enjoy myself i wouldn’t get too fucked up and i could go back go to the tent to feed him so friday night was fine but then saturday lloyd disappeared called me 2 hours later like i’m in luton what you doing in luton? urghdunno he said he was at the airport there were people laughing in the background i said: just remember in 2 and a half hours you’ve got to take the baby an hour later i called again this time he was in gatwick what you doing in gatwick? ughdunno 630 comes and the door opens he’s soaked in alcohol 10 minutes later he’s sleeping so i do breakfast and i go up at 730 to wake him i-i-i-i think you should get up and like it’s just so bad i’m already this kind of person i thought the transition was going to be harder but i’m settled i guess anyway guess who i met at the festival probably one of the most famous people in the world but it’s the motherfucking principle – i have to go to the festival with my baby because you’ve been on a fucking booze binge round London airports i just felt like such a gooner really bad really bad really really really bad your responsibility your child you’ve known about this for 3 fucking months i was so angry and he’s such a

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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feature

June 2017

Oberhausen Film Festival

Tom Overton

feature

June 2017

Such film festivals – those extraordinary clusters of images, transports of light, of virtual worlds scattered across a real...

Art

November 2012

7 1/2 mile hike to Mohonk Lake via Duck Pond

Patricia Niven

JA Murrin

Art

November 2012

Notes on a Walk Never Taken by JA Murrin   As a writer I like to visit the places...

Prize Entry

April 2016

Role Play

Naomi Frisby

Prize Entry

April 2016

Your right hand is the first to go. One Sunday afternoon as you’re sitting on the sofa reading the...

 

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