Liz Harmer on Zadie Smith: Feel Free

Liz Harmer on Zadie Smith: Feel Free

Feel Free, Zadie Smith. Hamish Hamilton (2018). It seemed to me, as I read Feel Free, Zadie Smith’s new collection of nonfiction, that every essay in the world concerns the…

Virginia Woolf : A Few Thoughts on Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

Virginia Woolf : A Few Thoughts on Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

I’m posting this classic Virginia Woolf essay as a reminder that the personal is always interesting if it is live and in context; if there is a pulse at the…

From Gentlemen of the Shade: Jen Sookfong Lee

From Gentlemen of the Shade: Jen Sookfong Lee

RISK, ON AND SCREEN OFF At 15, when I first watched My Own Private Idaho, my sexuality was still a fetal idea. But even though there are few women in…

Lisa Robertson: Time in the Codex

Lisa Robertson: Time in the Codex

LISA ROBERTSON lives in the Vienne region of France. Her most recent books of poetry are Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip, which was selected by the New York Times as…

Sina Queyras on Lisa Robertson’s Nilling

BY SINA QUEYRAS When I said in an earlier last post that I go to poetry to think, Lisa Robertson was the first poet that came to mind. Hers is a poetry that…