A few years ago, Peter Carey produced a novel called Theft: A Love Story. It is the story of two…
Survival, feminist killjoys and the making of transnational counterpublics: on watching Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years.
On Saturday, I went to see Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years in London, part of Fringe! East London Gay Film…
Challenging your patience for thematic effect
“You can never not write about you.” By way of addendum to my post of April 6, “Your Basic…
The Dividing Line, the Defining Meals: Kafka Sermon Final
For a few days here on Big Other, now while we’re still in soul-shot of Passover and Easter, I’ve been…
Feature Friday: “Syndromes and a Century” (2006)
Easily one of the best films of the past seven years, by one of the greatest living filmmakers, Apichatapong Weerasethakul.…
The Sister, the Lover, & Skepticism: Kafka Sermon #2
A couple of days ago, here on Big Other, I posted my first round of thoughts on one of Kafka’s briefest…
Down with Amdahl
One of my favorite story collections of the last decade, maybe ever, is Gary Amdahl’s Visigoth, which was published five…
The “Fabulous” vs. the “Struggle:” Kafka Sermon #1
ON PARABLES Many complain that the words of the wise are always merely parables and of no use in daily…
a photograph by Truett Dietz
“This particular image is from the pool I learned to swim in as a child. In the late 90s some…