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From 2015: Picasso and Truth, an interview with TJ Clark:

This short interview was originally published in 2015 on Ready Steady Book.

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From 2015: Picasso and Truth, an interview with TJ Clark:

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A Problem Like Maria

You expected Aristotle Onassis But instead you got Mister James Fennings from Prestwich, in Cumbria –The Fall

Feb 3

A Problem Like Maria

Feb 3

Against the Darkness: Paul Celan’s “Letters to Gisèle”

My review of Letters to Gisèle, the recent translation of the correspondence between Paul Celan and his wife, the printmaker Gisèle…

Dec 12, 2024

A copy of Letters to Gisèle trans. Jason Kavett published by NYRB, 2024

Dec 12, 2024

A Personal Anthology

Delighted to have taken part in Jonathan Gibbs’ A Personal Anthology series a couple of months ago:

Sep 25, 2024

A Personal Anthology

Sep 25, 2024

Imitation of Strife: On May December

May December cuts off our access to aesthetic gratification through continual fractures, showing how our forms of storytelling have become…

Feb 15, 2024

Imitation of Strife: On May December

Feb 15, 2024

Nothing, Nowhere, Not Even Once: (part two)

The Fabelmans

Mar 5, 2023

Nothing, Nowhere, Not Even Once: (part two)

Mar 5, 2023

Nothing, Nowhere, Not Even Once: An Oscars 2023 Round Up (part one)

The Banshees of Inisherin

Jan 28, 2023

Nothing, Nowhere, Not Even Once: An Oscars 2023 Round Up (part one)

Jan 28, 2023

Effacing the Music: The Annihilating Style of ‘A Single Man’

Tom Ford’s 2009 film A Single Man, based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood, was recently made available on Mubi. The…

Oct 24, 2021

Effacing the Music: The Annihilating Style of ‘A Single Man’

Oct 24, 2021

Force and Circumstance

I. I have written about Thomas Bernhard before. However, writing about him now feels different, not only from the time a decade or so ago…

Aug 26, 2021

Force and Circumstance

Aug 26, 2021

That Which Has Happened Continues to Happen

Rebecca Comay’s Mourning Sickness

Dec 11, 2020

That Which Has Happened Continues to Happen

Dec 11, 2020

Red Dwarf and the Horcrux of Backwards

On Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’

Sep 12, 2020

Red Dwarf and the Horcrux of Backwards

Sep 12, 2020

Blood, Money: Subsumption and Biopolitics in Uncut Gems

All that money, the money is the motive — The Weeknd

Jun 12, 2020

Blood, Money: Subsumption and Biopolitics in Uncut Gems

Jun 12, 2020

A Lasting Supper: Michael Kohlhaas

Let us begin at the end. The horse-dealer Michael Kohlhaas is about to be put to death following a stubborn and unending crusade for…

Apr 30, 2020

A Lasting Supper: Michael Kohlhaas

Apr 30, 2020

A quarantine list: 250 of my favourite films

250 of my favourite films, put together just because. I have attempted to limit the list to one film per director, except in the cases…

Apr 18, 2020

A quarantine list: 250 of my favourite films

Apr 18, 2020

The Intrusion of Fiction: Thoughts on Hiromi Kawakami

The works of Hiromi Kawakami exude a strange and quiet light. This lightness is not mere simplicity or economy (though they are certainly…

Dec 27, 2019

The Intrusion of Fiction: Thoughts on Hiromi Kawakami

Dec 27, 2019

A Double Shadow: Re-reading Thomas Bernhard

‘we say he is, then suddenly he was, this terrible was’ — The Loser

Oct 27, 2019

A Double Shadow: Re-reading Thomas Bernhard

Oct 27, 2019

A Gentle Remainder: Anne Dufourmantelle’s Power of Gentleness

Striving for Gentleness. — When a vigorous nature has not an inclination towards cruelty, and is not always preoccupied with itself, it…

Aug 29, 2019

A Gentle Remainder: Anne Dufourmantelle’s Power of Gentleness

Aug 29, 2019

Light, Fragility: A Fragment on Agnes Martin

I find it difficult to articulate what it is which I find so captivating in Agnes Martin’s paintings. One of the difficulties in…

Aug 14, 2019

Light, Fragility: A Fragment on Agnes Martin

Aug 14, 2019

Voiding the Touch

Mike Nelson’s The Asset Strippers

Jul 27, 2019

Voiding the Touch

Jul 27, 2019

Faith, no more

Martin Hägglund’s ‘This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom’

Jun 24, 2019

Faith, no more

Jun 24, 2019

Daniel Fraser

Daniel Fraser

Yorkshire person. Editor @readysteadybook. Writer @thequietus, @3ammagaine, @gorse_journal, @LAReviewofBooks + more. Communism, literature, philosophy.

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