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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...

Having several issues ago announced that we would no longer be writing our own editorials, the editors’ (ultimately inevitable) failure to organise a replacement, combined with a marked lack of enthusiasm on the part of those people we invited to write on our behalf, has hastened our return to these pages It might have dawned on those we approached, as it long ago dawned on us, that writing editorials is dull and difficult   So, to what purpose should we put this page which remains, roughly nine hours before we go to press, accusingly blank? To proselytise here would be to preach – one hopes – to the converted Should we instead use the opportunity shamelessly to ask you for money? It would after all be opportune – in September we launch a crowdfunding campaign offering such incentives to donate as a night-time peregrination in the sole company of Will Self (expensive), limited edition, specially-commissioned art works by previous contributors to the magazine (quite expensive), a drink with Ned Beauman (competitively priced), a set of artists’ postcards (pocket money) and even the opportunity to meet the editors at a party (please form an orderly queue)   But no, it would be unbecoming of us We, the unpaid directors of a registered charity in the United Kingdom (number: 1148690) ‘specialising in artistically or educationally meritorious works by new or emerging artists and writers’, would never so shamelessly prey upon the kindness of our readers However loyal, big-hearted, munificent, tasteful and – may we say – well-dressed our readers might be Readers who are committed to supporting literature and the arts beyond the penalties of what we are now obliged to call ‘austerity’, readers who believe that a vibrant, progressive, polyvocal cultural milieu is essential to the wellbeing of a society, readers who understand the importance of paying writers for their work Readers who certainly don’t need to be told that taking out a subscription to a magazine supports its long-term survival by providing it with a reliable cash flow during a time in which newsstand sales are falling and the margins are increasingly tight,

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August 2014

Rose McLaren

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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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December 2016

The Giving Up Game

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

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December 2016

The peculiar thing was that Astrid appeared exactly as she did on screen. She was neither taller nor shorter....

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February 2013

Famous Tombs: Love in the 90s

Masha Tupitsyn

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February 2013

‘However, somebody killed something: that’s clear, at any rate—’ Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll   I. BEGINNING  ...

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Issue No. 1

Beyond the Horizon

Patrick Langley

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Issue No. 1

Listen to the silence, let it ring on. (Joy Division, Transmission) I It is not yet dawn. The city...

 

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