Conor Truax

New York

writer for rent recent work @BOMBmagazine @spike_art @forevermagnyc @LAReviewofBooks @FlauntMagazine @thedrift_mag etc. [email protected]

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Remembering a massacre in Korea – and all those who ‘ever suffered similar fates’

2 months ago | the-tls.co.uk | Claire Lowdon |Beejay Silcox |Conor Truax |Damon Galgut

Han Kang was born in Gwangju in South Korea in 1970. Her family moved to Seoul four months before the Gwangju uprising, which took place in May 1980, during which the South Korean military violently suppressed student-led democratic protests and massacred up to 2,300 people. Han Kang researched the subject extensively for Human Acts (TLS, March 25, 2016; translated by Deborah Smith), now widely considered her masterwork.
A crisis of masculinity – and the ultimate vow of commitment

2 months ago | the-tls.co.uk | Conor Truax

Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
Eimear McBride’s risky sequel to The Lesser Bohemians

2 months ago | the-tls.co.uk | Damon Galgut |Beejay Silcox |Conor Truax |Claire Lowdon

Despite its shocking subject matter (rape, incest, suicide), Eimear McBride’s debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (TLS, June 14, 2013), was largely critiqued in terms of its use of language. That said, the violence McBride wreaked on sentences was also, in its way, quite shocking. The opening paragraph gives a flavour: For you. You’ll soon. You’ll give her name. In the stitches of her skin she’ll wear your say. Mammy me? Yes, you. Bounce the bed, I’d say. I’d say that’s what you did.
Poems, stories, essays and artwork from Gaza

2 months ago | the-tls.co.uk | Lindsey Hilsum |Conor Truax |Claire Lowdon |Beejay Silcox

In Gaza, parents have taken to writing their children’s names on their legs in black marker pen so, if the family is separated during an Israeli bombing, they have some hope of finding each other again; or at least of being able to identify a body. Medics are labelling a growing number of injured children “WCNSF” – Wounded Child, No Surviving Family.
A Soap Opera in the Forest: An Interview with Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson

Oct 24, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Conor Truax |Luke Gorham

Among cinephiles, Guy Maddin has long reigned with the celebration and consolation of being “the most accessible avant-gardist.” Since breaking out of obscurity with Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988), Maddin has been drawn to a filmic primitivism that borrows from silent-era conventions, casts non-actors or non-stars, and relies on an associative surrealism over formal coherence.
We Live in Time — John Crowley | In Review Online

Oct 14, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Conor Truax |Luke Gorham

The title of A24’s newest tragicomic offering, We Live in Time, recalls the gleeful cliché of romance films from the decade past: The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009), About Time (2013), Time Freak (2018), and, more recently, Needle in a Timestack (2021). The title of John Crowley’ latest entry also states that we are living in a substance called “Time.” But is it the case that we live inside time? Is life a solute and time its solvent?
The Development of Self-Definition: An Interview with Aaron Schimberg

Sep 20, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Conor Truax |Luke Gorham

Aaron Schimberg’s third feature, A Different Man, is a genre-bending character portrait of Edward (Sebastian Stan, wearing a prosthetic mask), a lonely and failed actor disfigured by neurofibromatosis, a genetic condition referred to as “NF1.” Unable to assert himself romantically with his boorish playwright neighbor Ingrid (Renate Reinsve), Edward undergoes a Cronenbergian reconstructive procedure that does away with his former face.
Other People's Minds, Other People's Hearts: An Interview with Nathan Silver

Aug 26, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Conor Truax |Luke Gorham

Nathan Silver is perhaps best known for his prodigious output, releasing nine feature films period of 2012 to 2019. His prolificness is made all the more impressive by the conditions under which his films have typically been made: microbudgets; international productions; structural scriptments with dialogue written the day of, or before, shoots; and little-to-no institutional support.
Sing Sing — Greg Kwedar | In Review Online

Jul 10, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Conor Truax |Luke Gorham

The rise of A24 as a production company and distributor has seen with it the public recognition, on Tik Tok and Reddit, of the A24 aesthetic; soft color palettes, outcasts coming of age or circumstance, shot under a blue sky on faux vintage film. The understanding of an “A24 aesthetic” in the public consciousness likely commenced sometime soon after Moonlight’s 2016 Best Picture win, and it was further defined with subsequent films like The Florida Project and Waves.
Rite Here Rite Now — Alex Ross Perry & Tobias Forge | In Review Online

Jun 21, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Conor Truax |Luke Gorham

Credit: Ryan Chang/Trafalgar Releasing Covered in paint, drawn from hell, the Swedish soft-metal-theatrical-intractable band Ghost has been ascending toward the surface of mainstream pop-cultural stardom since their 2022 album Impera and TikTok-viral Mary on A Cross from 2019.