‘An Invite to Eternity’ begins with ‘dark obscurity’, ‘sad non-identity’ and hellish visionary scenes (‘Where stones will ...
Roughly two-thirds of the YCBA ’s current holdings once belonged to Mellon himself, with the remainder comprising items purchased by the museum or bequeathed to it. What began as a personal project ...
Several schoolchildren have been severely injured by police violence. A 16-year-old in Argenteuil may have lost the use of ...
Lula raised the budget for school lunches, improved access to higher education and free medication, and increased ...
Earlier at her party Simon Shaw had seemed a little excited when I met up with him. Was that sexual interest? – but what did ...
The Israeli military claims that each individual strike in Gaza is justified but ignores their collective ...
Fredric Jameson seemed to me to have read absolutely everything. He was the very antithesis of the intellectual type ...
In What is literature? (1948) Jean-Paul Sartre argued that writers and artists have a responsibility to engage with political and social realities. But is it still possible for writers to have ...
Ian Penman is the author of Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, which won the 2024 RSL Ondaatje Prize, and Erik Satie Three Piece Suite.
He also directed the homeland security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, to make a list of ‘confirmed’ citizens eligible to vote ...
By ‘signs in the heavens’, the Spirit would make known to him ‘when I should commence the great work ... and slay my enemies ...
Among​ John Clare’s drawings of ‘pootys’ (snail shells) and birds is a doodle of his imagined tombstone. It bears the inscription: ‘HERE Rest the HOPES and Ashes of JOHN CLARE.’ The masons missed the ...