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Olga Tokarczuk’s New Rules for Realism

Jan 15, 2025 | thenation.com | Jess Cotton

Books & the Arts / January 15, 2025 A Magic Mountain Olga Tokarczuk’s new rules for realism. Olga Tokarczuk’s New Rules for RealismIn The Empusium, the Polish novelist’s first novel since her Nobel, she pays homage to Thomas Mann in order to redraw the boundaries of the realist novel. Ad Policy Illustration by Lily Qian. This article appears in the February 2025 issue.
Poetry and Indiscipline - Creative-Critical

Sep 11, 2024 | creativecritical.net | Sam Buchan-Watts |Lucy Mercer |John Clarke |Jess Cotton

By Sam Buchan-Watts and Lucy Mercer. On 10 May 2024 we held a closed, eight-person symposium in a seminar room at MayDay Rooms entitled ‘Poetry and Indiscipline’.
At Guts Gallery, Artists Navigate 'The Future of Loneliness' | Feature

Jun 24, 2024 | ocula.com | Matthew Holman |Jess Cotton

Despite the unprecedented technologies keeping our globalised world connected, many of us are feeling lonelier than ever. Guts Gallery, an exciting space for emerging artists in London, takes loneliness and intimacy as the subjects of its latest group exhibition.
Olga Ravn’s Novel of Parenting and Its Discontents

Apr 2, 2024 | thenation.com | Jess Cotton

The Nation WeeklyFridays. A weekly digest of the best of our coverage. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You may unsubscribe or adjust your preferences at any time. You can read our Privacy Policy here. Ravn, who has been hailed as one of the most innovative writers on Copenhagen’s literary scene, has long been interested in the politics of labor.
A lament for the ‘authentic talent’ of Susan Taubes

Dec 5, 2023 | the-tls.co.uk | Jess Cotton |Heather Clark |Guy Stevenson |Phil Baker

In New York City in 1961, Susan Taubes joined a circle of women writers led by her friend Susan Sontag who read and exchanged works in progress. At the time Taubes was teaching comparative mythology and religion at Barnard College and living alone, having recently separated from her husband, the philosopher Jacob Taubes (see facing page). She would soon begin writing Lament for Julia, a dark comic novella that remained unpublished in her lifetime.
Analysis for the people - Jess Cotton

Aug 8, 2023 | qoshe.com | Jess Cotton

Columnists Actual . Favourites . Archive The Austrian-born psychoanalyst Marie Langer began to think about how psychoanalysis might work in a more collective form in the mid-1950s. She had grown up in the politicised culture of ‘Red Vienna’ and – though trained in Freudian and Kleinian orthodoxies – her communist politics increasingly drew her to an emerging field of group analytic therapy.