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
Does Size Matter? Some Thoughts On ‘The Good Bookshop’
“If a bookshop contained all the books ever written, what are the chances that you would find the one book you need? … Keep Reading
“DIARY OF AN OXYGEN THIEF” by Anonymous (no, not the activists)
The book belongs first to the eyes (I stole this quote from a book about the Brooklyn Bridge, I feel it’s aesthetically … Keep Reading
“A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara: A two-part book review
Masterpiece or soap opera? The aptly and yet ironically named novel A Little Life (it’s literally the size of a brick) has swept … Keep Reading
Warming Up: Street haunting is the greatest of pleasures
Like Virginia Woolf’s needed excuse ‘for walking half across London between tea and dinner,’ I want an excuse to roam Nørrebro, the … Keep Reading
The Law Ex-ists: Reading Kafka with Lacan
A reading of Kafka’s Law as a non-existent existence. We begin, of course, with an excerpt from “Before the Law,” Kafka’s famous parable … Keep Reading
Reading as resonance
How much can be said about what cannot be explained? Resonance: Something in a book corresponds with something in me, and vice versa. … Keep Reading