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Nuar Alsadir

Nuar Alsadir is a poet, essayist and psychoanalyst. She recently published the non-fiction book Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation. She is also the author of the poetry books Fourth Person Singular and More Shadow Than Bird. She lives in New York.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 167 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 167 padlock

On Boredom

Nuar Alsadir

‘Boredom is a complicated stink of an emotion, one that is far more layered than we presume.’

Nuar Alsadir on boredom.

Poetry | Issue 148
Poetry | Issue 148

Quantum Displacement

Nuar Alsadir

‘I don’t want / to be a figure others lean their names into’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 148
Essays & Memoir | Issue 148

since feeling is first

Nuar Alsadir

‘The way we manage erotic knowledge is connected to our handling of unwanted truths’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 148
Essays & Memoir | Issue 148

Clown School

Nuar Alsadir

Political resistance, poetry, self-revelation all spring from that provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints.

Art & Photography | Issue 140 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 140 padlock

Imagined Memories

Francesca Todde & Nuar Alsadir

‘The creation of a screen memory is an encoding process: the screen retains all that is important from the past, but in encrypted form.’ Nuar Alsadir introduces the photographs of Francesca Todde.

Poetry | Issue 140
Poetry | Issue 140

Fourth Person Singular

Nuar Alsadir

‘The wet in the air is like signal anxiety: life is about to / change.’

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