Readings

A portrait of the writer
Let's Not Pretend

On women in Antonioni’s films

a knitted garment with a star pattern
Rose, Snowflake, Star, Sun

The cross-border journeys of a beloved symbol

colourful painted headshot of a young man with short facial hair.
The Jester’s Lament

Can Tyler, The Creator shake off his past with Chromakopia?

two people in a garden in the center of flames
The Hideaway

In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world

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?