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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...

A practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst, Darian Leader is one of a dying breed It is no overstatement to say that psychoanalysis is not only out of fashion and widely scorned but largely dismissed as an outdated discipline borne of a personality cult; Leader himself has described analysts today as ‘mutants scavenging after a nuclear holocaust’   What makes his position rarer still is that he is also a celebrated author; in the course of eight books Leader has established himself as an elegant and erudite voice of Lacanian theory in academic yet popular books commenting on love, the sexes, the history of psychoanalysis, the mind and the body Much fêted by the artworld he has also written numerous essays on the work of leading British artists such as Antony Gormley and Marc Quinn – many of whom he counts as friends – and is often presented ‘in conversation’ with artists   A remarkable feature of Leader’s writing is the seeming ease with which he can make complex and strange psychoanalytic concepts accessible to a general audience This arises in part from the clarity of his prose but also from his ability to illustrate his concepts with examples taken from cinema, art, literature, the public canonical case studies and the privacy of the session – moving between high and low culture whilst avoiding the pitfalls of that method, now so in vogue in our post-cultural theory era   This is no attempt at a showy parlour game of pop-deconstruction, but is a method merited because, as Leader explains, ‘What matters here is not the treatment of any one genre but rather fidelity to questions’ It is in this way that readers are able to find his writings on the psyche and the arts educational in the best sense: they provoke us to consider more carefully, move beyond appearances and question further Whatever the topic, we are invited to pursue Leader’s primary concern: the uniquely human capacity for meaning, and the questioning of it   In recent years, in What is Madness? and the newly released Strictly Bipolar, he has emerged as a savage critic of ‘Big Pharma’, a campaigning

Contributor

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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poetry

November 2011

Cooper's Hawk

Elyse Fenton

poetry

November 2011

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

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April 2017

The White Review Short Story Prize 2017 Shortlist (UK & Ireland)

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April 2017

  click on the title to read the story   A Journey Through Famous by Kanye West by Liam...

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Issue No. 1

Interview with Paula Rego

Ben Eastham

Helen Graham

Interview

Issue No. 1

Dame Paula Rego introduces me into her North London home with a crooked smile and a plate of biscuits....

 

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