Sarah Nicole Prickett

Free the Roses

On the bloom of spectacular decline.

Book Eight: Harry Mathews's Cigarettes

Who gets to keep the record that everyone is so bored making?

Julia Dault: Beauty at a Complicated Angle

We pay a visit to the Canadian artist’s Brooklyn studio and take in her latest work. Discussed: creating versus criticism, the logic of colour, and what pretty means.

||My Bed, Tracey Emin (1998)
Book Five: James Salter's A Sport and a Pastime

James Salter's depictions of sex as a glorious, writhing inevitability in A Sport and a Pastime divulge certain truths about companionship. Meanwhile, he paints the entire world blue. The fifth in a series of essays on reading as personal experience.

From Renata Adler to Azealia Banks: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

How the trash-talking singer could be this generation's incarnation of the wonderfully disagreeable critic and novelist.