Readings

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?

a person is half submerged in the underworld styx
Tailpipe Katabasis

Oil Stories and/as Underworlds