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 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
“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