Reading on Election Day or: The impossible, the absurd and the grotesque
The impossibility of politics and Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Macon Holt Whatever happens today with the U.S. there will be something … Keep Reading
How to judge a book by its cover
A cartoon from behind publishing lines. … Keep Reading
Your Neighbor Will Kill You: Reading Kafka with Lacan
In my previous column on Kafka and Lacan we looked at the operation of the Law in Kafka’s novels. I argued that … Keep Reading
Pure Pleasure: My Cohen Crush
I want to share my first time with you. A wooden bench in St. James Park, London. June 14th 2013. A sunny day, … Keep Reading
Reading The Readers Of Sasha Grey Reading Slavoj Žižek
I happened upon this picture of the actor, writer, musician and former pornographic actor, Sasha Grey, reading Slavoj Žižek’s 2008 book, In … Keep Reading
Reading and the meaning in life
Our sphere of the real was riddled with simulations, yet was the world at hand. Or the simulation was riddled through with … Keep Reading
The Human Condition: Studium and punctum
I am taking a look at a photograph of her, taken presumably in her fifties or sixties. The first thing I see … Keep Reading
Maggie Nelson’s ‘The Argonauts’: A somehow disappointed review
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is all-the-rage right now. ‘Short & sweet’, it takes a form of a memoir, but rather than dragging … Keep Reading
Maggie Nelson’s ‘The Argonauts’: A heavily biased review
I began reading Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts four or five months ago. I say ‘began’ because I haven’t really stopped since. I … Keep Reading
Reading aloud: Ta-Nehisi Coates at the end of the world
Words from a tiny town in a far off corner of Iceland. This is a landscape of edges and surfaces. What looks … Keep Reading