Readings

A glowing red car sits outside of a hospital
The Almost Dad

Is it okay that he’s over here so often, hooking up my mum’s speakers and swirling his single malt Scotch? We all wonder, we never ask.

Francesco Rosselli's Tavola Strozzi, presenting a fifteenth-century view of Naples.
Victims and Executioners

Whatever angle you look at it, one detail is incontrovertible: in the end, a man is going to be killed.

Painting of a man's hands wearing purple latex gloves on a bronze sculpture.
The Bodybuilder

These art objects let me feel my own living form through the many shapes they had been pressed into.    

Close up of a woman with long dark hair
Against Redemption

Social media is filled with documentation of human suffering. So why read a tragic novel?

A crop of an image from Deborah Levy's book cover, a black and white photograph of feet with a spoon.
Bathed in an Arc of Fresh Light

What else is it we would want from love, apart from love?

a collage portrait of Silvia Federici
The Agitator

The activist-academic Silvia Federici has never muted her message to get ahead. What’s the cost of refusing to sell out?