Barry Pierce

2 months ago | bigissue.com | Barry Pierce

As part of Pushkin Press’s effort to bring the writing of the late Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel to a new Anglophone audience, the press has just reissued Katherine Silver’s 2003 translation of the writer’s most popular work and only novel, My Tender Matador (Tengo Miedo Torero). Lemebel, who was openly queer, was known for his radical politics and outspokenness. My Tender Matador is an almost-perfect introduction to Lemebel and everything he stood for.

Nov 19, 2024 | exhibition-magazine.com | Barry Pierce

6min of reading BARRY PIERCE THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND 6min of reading Meet one of the most radical (and unpredictable) figures in British fashion, a designer who plays entirely by her own rule book. London Fashion Week SS24. The space had the aura of a James Bond villain’s lair, or the arena where you’d fight a video game’s final boss. At one end of the warehouse there was a huge white light that illuminated the runway and nothing else. Good luck finding your seat.

Oct 2, 2024 | bigissue.com | Barry Pierce

Books The first of Tange Lange's novels to appear in English is set among the darkrooms and cruising areas of Berlin by: Barry Pierce Nikolaj Tange Lange’s Romeo & Seahorse begins with a line that, in my mind, recalls Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca — “I just told my boyfriend I have Hepatitis C again.” And who knows, if du Maurier were still alive, perhaps she too would have written a novel set amongst the darkrooms and cruising areas of Berlin.

Oct 1, 2024 | bigissue.com | Barry Pierce

Books De La Verda’s stories scrutinise Mexican society with great humour and grit by: Barry Pierce If there’s one way to sell a book in 2024 it’s by giving it a hot pink jacket, putting an iconic Graciela Iturbide photograph on the cover, and calling it Reservoir Bitches. Dahlia de la Cerda’s debut story collection begins with a woman in desperate need for an abortion.

Aug 1, 2024 | plastermagazine.com | Barry Pierce

5 min read There aren’t many artists who’ve made their way from the basement of The Glory to the shortlist of the Turner Prize, but for Sin Wai Kin, the iconic LGBTQ+ venue in East London was a lesson in performance and theatre. “I don’t have any formal theatrical or performance training,” Sin tells me over Zoom from their Somerset House studio as a life-sized cardboard standee of themselves looms in the background. Just a few days ago, their latest exhibition, ‘Portraits’, opened at London’s...