At the very moment the book is dematerializing, it is becoming more embodied than ever, the book celebrating the fetishization…
common place
:::: Learning to travel is another way of saying learning to read. (37) :::: For five months at the beginning…
100
And so we start the celebrations, commemorations, what have you, for the 100th anniversary of the First World War. We…
At Home
In the conclusion to his immense tome, The Culture of the Europeans, Donald Sassoon has one of those brief apercus that…
Victor Holmes
Shortly before Christmas, Maureen and I saw the two versions of the National Theatre production of Frankenstein. In the first…
A paragraph about a paragraph I love
There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way…
Unheimlich?
According to Freud, one of the key characteristics of the Uncanny is the doppelganger. In which case, Eleanor Catton’s marvellous…
The Broken Road
And so the journey is finally over. Begun in the snowy December of 1933 by a young man not yet…
ASL
I know nothing about the technical side of film. On the (very) few occasions that I actually write about film…
Baudelaire’s Nightmare
In 1859, the Paris Salon allowed photographs into its exhibition. This brought a howl of outrage from Baudelaire, who claimed…