Esmé Hogeveen

Nov 4, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Esmé Hogeveen |Jake Nevins

Last month, the Belfast-born and Basque Country-trained cook Hugh Corcoran made a bid for midday civility. Or, at least, his version of it, which looks like long, boozy lunches and easy access to Irish modernist paperbacks. In October, Corcoran, along with co-owners Oisín Davies and Frances von Hofmannsthal, opened The Yellow Bittern, a lunch-only restaurant and bookshop in central London.

Jun 28, 2024 | frieze.com | Esmé Hogeveen |Walter Scott

The Wendy Award (2024)is the fourth installment in Walter Scott’s cult graphic novel series, which chronicles the exploits of his alter ego, the titular Wendy. In the three previous books, readers have followed Wendy coming up in the Montreal art scene, participating in national residencies and completing an MFA, while continuously careening between deep self-doubt and fleeting conviction.

May 2, 2024 | frieze.com | Esmé Hogeveen

Maggie Nelson’s recent book of collected writings, Like Love: Essays and Conversations (Graywolf/Fern Press, 2024), is, in many ways, an ode to paying attention.

Feb 7, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Esmé Hogeveen |Jake Nevins

When we spoke in late January, the Irish novelist Megan Nolan was preparing to move from London to New York for what might be her “last frivolous, flouncing around era,” as she called it.

Oct 26, 2023 | frieze.com | Esmé Hogeveen

In the months prior to reading Natasha Stagg’s Artless: Stories 2019–2023 (2023), I found myself using the term ‘artless’ with increasing regularity. New art exhibitions or television shows might strike me as entertaining or cleverly conceived but, very often, they lacked that ephemeral mixture of vision and guile that makes something truly artful. A book recontextualizing women’s revolutionary art was politically meaningful but rote in its selection of case studies.