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Rose McLaren is an artist in London.



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Talk Into My Bullet Hole

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July 2015

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?’ ‘Oh, I don’t...

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May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

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May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

At the close of this issue’s interview with Elad Lassry, who has also provided us with a new artwork for our cover, the artist considers the proposition that ‘everything is art’ Lassry admits he finds this viewpoint challenging ‘Trees, deserts, oceans are phenomena,’ he argues ‘Art is the decision’   Many of the writers in issue 26 choose a decisive and critical position from which to work, challenging the political situations they see unfolding around them An extract from Shumona Sinha’s searing novel Let’s Knock Out the Poor is a reckoning with France’s treatment of migrants and asylum seekers based on the author’s own experience of working in an immigration centre; when the book was published in France in 2011, Sinha lost her job Juliana Delgado Lopera’s groundbreaking Fiebre Tropical is written entirely in Spanglish In its inventive and heady mixture of Spanish and English, Lopera captures a Colombian teen’s arrival to Miami and uses language as a political tool to show how inextricably entwined the cultures of Latin America and the United States are We’re also delighted to publish the winner of this year’s White Review Short Story Prize Vanessa Onwuemezi’s story ‘At the Heart of Things’ is a visceral journey into interiority and dreams Formally daring and linguistically metamorphic, it is a worthy winner of a prize established to explore and expand the possibilities of the form   Elsewhere, Khairani Barokka experiments with a hybrid of criticism and poetry by re-examining the figure in Paul Gauguin’s famous portrait Annah La Javanaise through the intersecting lens of race and disability, before imagining new poetic futures for them The psychoanalyst and writer Nuar Alsadir continues the theme of radical reinterpretation by applying Donald Winnicott’s theory of the ‘True Self’ to mothering, writing and Anna Karenina Anwen Crawford’s ‘All Circles Vanish’ is an elegy to a lost friend and a deeply personal meditation on art-making and resistance – a resistance embedded within its unconventional form    We are excited to present an interview with the American scholar Saidiya Hartman Victoria Adukwei Bulley met her in London shortly before the publication of her newest

Contributor

August 2014

Rose McLaren

Contributor

August 2014

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.

The Prosaic Sublime of Béla Tarr

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Issue No. 6

Rose McLaren

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Issue No. 6

I have to recognise it’s cosmical; the shit is cosmical. It’s not just social, it’s not just ontological, it’s really huge. And that’s why we...
Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

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February 2012

Rose McLaren

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February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer half way through Zona. Such...

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July 2011

Letter of a Madman

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TR. Will Stone

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July 2011

Introduction by the translator In the early hours of 2 January 1892, sensing the approach of insanity, the renowned...

Interview

February 2014

Interview with Patrick Keiller

David Anderson

Interview

February 2014

Patrick Keiller, an architect ‘diverted’ into making films, is principally known for his Robinson series, which began with  London (1994)...

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January 2012

The Common Sense Cosmos

Ned Beauman

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January 2012

Worthwhile philosophy is like building matchstick galleons. When Lewis says that all possible worlds are just as real as...

 

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