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Data Output on Negative Capitalism
A selection of snippets from J. D. Taylor’s Negative Capitalism: Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era (published 2013), an incisive diagnosis and series of responses to the current economic and cultural...
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Seamus Heaney and Caillebotte’s Banks of a Canal
Seamus Heaney finished this poem 10 days before he died, meditating on the serene beauty of a canal painted by the French artist Gustave Caillebotte. Banks of a Canal Say ‘canal’ and there’s that final...
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Everybody Knows This Is NOWHERE
This morning I started reading Everybody Knows This Is NOWHERE after breakfast and did little else until I finished reading Alice Furse’s story. Though a first novel, it in no way feels like a work of...
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Digressive Interior Journeys
It isn’t often that a writer’s voice and concerns register deep enough that I end up scouring second-hand sources for first editions of their work. Jenny Diski becomes the thirty-first writer housed in...
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Sensorium of the World
A friend sends me an email to ask if I know the poems of American poet Jorie Graham. I am aware of Graham’s work, thanks to an interview with Helen Vendler who talked of a trend in Graham’s work to...
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Hong Kong 1950s-1960s (Fan Ho)
Hong Kong Yesterday 1950s–1960s – Fan HoFiled under: 21st Century, Visuals Tagged: Fan Ho
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Discovering the Dark Mountain Project.
Last night’s launch event for the sixth issue of Dark Mountain corroborated my initial impression of the community that surround this network of writers, musicians and artists. I’ve been immersed...
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Fog Island Mountains by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Before trying to convey my impressions of Fog Island Mountains I ought to begin with a disclaimer that its writer Michelle Bailat-Jones is not only a friend, but a discerning reader who shares more of...
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A Work of Fiction by Louise Gluck
A Work of Fiction As I turned over the last page, after many nights, a wave of sorrow envel- oped me. Where had they all gone, these people who had seemed so real? To distract myself, I walked out into...
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Walking the Woods and the Water by Nick Hunt
I began to read travel literature when the peripatetic period of my late teens and twenties came to an end. Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dervla Murphy and Wilfred Thesiger offered some relief for the yearning...
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