Diarmuid Hester

Sep 16, 2024 | theguardian.com | Diarmuid Hester

‘I think it’s an investigation of belonging – one that we didn’t have a literal space for before.”I’m on the phone with the novelist Yael van der Wouden, conferring with her about a recent trend in LGBTQ+ writing: a preoccupation with houses. I figured she would be a good person to talk to because her new, Booker-nominated novel The Safekeep centres on a lonely old house in the Dutch countryside that suddenly, one summer, is flooded with queer desire and intrigue.

May 28, 2024 | readings.com.au | Philippa Gregory |Yuan Yang |Barbara Minchinton |Diarmuid Hester

History is often told as a series of battles and changing regimes, dissmissing the contributions of those that weren't generals or politicians. But behind this 'Great Man' theory of history, there's a wealth of largely untold stories about the people that not only lived through those times, but also helped shaped them. These five captivating histories are dedicated to unearthing women whose stories have been overlooked.

Feb 18, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Catriona Miller |Isabella Wilkinson |Kaena Daeppen |Diarmuid Hester

Art History 101 Women Artists How does the place where art was created impact the work itself? And, in turn, can art influence how we view those very places? Diarmuid Hester considers this and much more in his biography Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories (Pegasus Books, 2024). These questions of the relationship between an artist and the places they lived and worked are investigated through a dynamic queer lens.

Jan 31, 2024 | auburnpub.com | Diarmuid Hester |Claude Peck

Despite the subtitle's assertion, at least three subjects of "Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories" (performer Josephine Baker, writers James Baldwin and E.M. Forster) have biographies that are far from hidden. What links the book's sections more than the relative fame of their subjects is their relationship to the "queer spaces" where they lived and made their nonconformist art. Writer Diarmuid Hester is drawn to outsiders, subversives, experimenters.

Jan 31, 2024 | arcamax.com | Diarmuid Hester

Despite the subtitle's assertion, at least three subjects of "Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories" (performer Josephine Baker, writers James Baldwin and E.M. Forster) have biographies that are far from hidden. What links the book's sections more than the relative fame of their subjects is their relationship to the "queer spaces" where they lived and made their nonconformist art. Writer Diarmuid Hester is drawn to outsiders, subversives, experimenters.