READS OF THE YEAR 2017: Andrew Lees
It sounds a bit pretentious these days but I still do believe that medicine is a calling rather than a profession or a job. In order to be a good neurologist you need… Continue reading
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READS OF THE YEAR 2017: Steve Mentz
Joseph North, Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History Literary studies loves self-interrogation. Usually we find ourselves wanting, and we are enjoined to return to some prior virtue: a politics of leftist solidarity,… Continue reading
READS OF THE YEAR 2017: Andrew Rubens
Daniel Everett Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle As a translator, I find the nuts and bolts of linguistics fascinating, but I am ambivalent about the discipline in… Continue reading
READS OF THE YEAR 2017: Naomi Richards
Thomas Wright, Oscar’s Books: A Journey around the Library of Oscar Wilde If you love books then this book surely must be a treasure. It is a literary journey through the mind of… Continue reading
READS OF THE YEAR 2017: Elissa Soave
I’ve read so many wonderful books this year, it really is difficult to narrow it down to three but, after much deliberation (and sorrow at having to leave off my list Roxane Gay’s… Continue reading
BODY LANGUAGE
Arika, Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist, Tramway, Glasgow, 16th – 19th November 2017 by Mark West Other Worlds Already Exist. If that’s true, where do they exist? Can multiple worlds exist in… Continue reading
NEW POETRY BY STEPHANIE GREEN
STEPHANIE GREEN‘s pamphlet ‘Flout’ was published by HappenStance, and launched at StAnza, 2015. ‘Berlin Umbrella’ an ‘aural walk’ poetry/sound collaboration with Sound Artiste, Sonja Heyer, will launch in Berlin in summer, 2018. She… Continue reading
INTENSE MOMENTS WITH STRANGERS: ‘The Spit, the Sound and the Nest’ by Kathrine Sowerby
Kathrine Sowerby, The Spit, the Sound and the Nest (Vagabond Voices, 2017) By Sarah Spence When Felix in Kathrine Sowerby’s The Spit, the Sound and the Nest asks Rita if “it’s wrong to leave… Continue reading
NEW POETRY BY TERENCE DOOLEY
TERENCE DOOLEY‘s pamphlet, The Why of It, has just been published by The Argent Press, and his translation of Eduardo Moga’s Selected Poems came out in April with Shearsman Books. He is Penelope… Continue reading
SOME THOUGHTS ON ‘PROTEST’
This essay is part of our Threat Levels series. In 2006, the UK passed from a seemingly more casual and non-specific BIKINI state to a more serious state of threat, varying from substantial to critical. The reference to… Continue reading