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Illustration of a bird flying.

  • Pat Hobaugh

    ‘This series explores the subject of sexuality via contemporary still lifes. These paintings at once demystify the sexual nature of the objects by candidly displaying them for the viewer’s eye, but then remystify their intent by divorcing them from their sexual context via arrangement in the manner of conventional still lifes. Rendered in this liminal […]

  • Philip Roth: The writer as a perennial apprentice

    Philip Roth, regarded as America’s greatest living novelist, on writing: ‘You’re always lost at the beginning. You may be so lost you don’t even know what you’re going to write about. But even when you discover what you’re going to write about, you don’t know how you’re going to go about writing it. The sentences […]

  • Jen Stark

    These paper sculptures by artist Jen Stark are pretty captivating; they must surely be an essay in patience and perseverance.  

  • Foucault: The History of Sexuality

    For a long time, the story goes, we supported a Victorian regime, and we continue to be dominated by it even today. Thus the image of the imperial prude is emblazoned on our restrained, mute, and hypocritical sexuality. At the beginning of the seventeenth century a certain frankness was still common, it would seem. Sexual […]

  • Review: Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire

    I have just finished reading Gregory Maguire’s Mirror, Mirror, which is a retelling of the Snow White myth set around C15 Italy. Maguire interweaves the myth with historical fact which largely gives the story a fresh sense of realism not generally associated with fairytales. Indeed, Maguire paints such a vivid world that the mythical elements […]

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