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On Marriage, Netflix, and Other Things I Hate

Book Review

June 2023

Orit Gat

Book Review

June 2023

1. ‘It’s kind of crazy to shop at Target, watch Netflix, drive a Honda, and still have a husband.’   Marriage falls into a...

Book Review

June 2023

Cosy Violence

Leon Craig

Book Review

June 2023

The 22 year old Australian narrator of K Patrick’s sensuous, subversive debut novel is a long way from home....

Art Review

May 2023

A little menace is fine

Naomi Pearce

Art Review

May 2023

Don’t you ever want the kind of family where you’re just allowed to be…   My brother trails off,...

Book Review

March 2023

Trash Like This

Megan Nolan

Book Review

March 2023

There’s an anecdote I sometimes wheel out to strangers or dates to convey the sort of child I was,...

Art Review

March 2023

On the Altar of the Rat King

Sam Moore

Art Review

March 2023

Walking into Surrender, Jenkin van Zyl’s installation in which a film loops on the wall of a mock-up of...

Film Review

January 2023

You Don’t Think God Is Sexy?

Philippa Snow

Film Review

January 2023

On the most literal level, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s elliptical, spiritual-cum-sensual movie Teorema (1968) is about an entire family being...

There are only girls on the internet

Book Review

August 2022

Rebecca Liu

Book Review

August 2022

I remember the first time I saw it, like a freshly alert hare alarmed by movement in the distant grasslands. It was 2013. Model...

Book Review

July 2022

It’s Personal: Writing and Reading Through Grief

Orit Gat

Book Review

July 2022

1. A spill  I’m drinking coffee in bed and reading The Reactor. I feel so close to everything Nick...

Art Review

July 2022

Gut Feelings

Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Art Review

July 2022

In Hayv Kahraman’s vast painting, ‘Entanglements no.1’ (2021), all life is suspended. Two female figures, weightless though weighed down,...

It is Psychotic to Draw a Line Between Two Places: On Bhanu Kapil

Book Review

April 2022

Stephanie Sy-Quia

Book Review

April 2022

Bhanu Kapil is a fantastic performer. I saw her at the London Review Bookshop in 2019. She had with her an orange Sainsbury’s carrier...

 

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