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Second Mother
Sinéad Gleeson
‘The cortex shrinks where the cells used to be. The spaces in between expand. Islands in the sea of the mind. An archipelago of the former self.’ Sinéad Gleeson on Alzheimer's disease.
If Mother’s Happy
Kathleen McCaul Moura
‘Towards the end of my pregnancy, like many women, my emotions were taut, stretched thin like the skin round my middle.’
The Fashion of Kathy Acker
Chris Kraus
An extract from Chris Kraus’s new biography, After Kathy Acker.
Chris Kraus on Kathy Acker
Chris Kraus
Chris Kraus discusses her new biography, After Kathy Acker, which looks at the life and work of the artist twenty years after her death.
Comfort Woman
Erika Krouse
Erika Krouse on her work as a private investigator. ‘An escort service was providing prostitutes for football recruits, directly solicited by the university.’
Hallelujah! A Brief History of Bombing People
Ben Mauk
Ben Mauk on the West’s longstanding love of missiles, drones, bombs and nukes.
Desire | State of Mind
Andrea Stuart
‘My burgeoning sense of my own attractiveness, so fragile and recently developed, withered in this less than fertile ground.’
Possessed | State of Mind
Jules Montague
‘I am neither fully awake nor entirely asleep. In fact, I wonder if I am even alive.’
Pop-Up People
Peter Pomerantsev
We are living through a period of pop-up populism, where each political movement redefines ‘the Many’ and ‘the People’, where we are always reconsidering who counts as an ‘insider’ or an ‘outsider’, where what it means to belong is never certain.
