Rosanna Mclaughlin

2 months ago | artreview.com | Rosanna Mclaughlin

In recent years, the act of reading tarot seems more concerned with signalling worldly social justice issues than communing with hidden forces. Was it always this way? The one time I had my tarot read, a woman pulled the cards, looked at me ominously and declared that I had to stop anal-ysing. At first, I worried that her clairvoyance extended to my search history, until it became apparent that she was merely repeating corny self-help advice with a confusingly sexual emphasis.

Oct 11, 2024 | artreview.com | Rosanna Mclaughlin

According to this fable by The White Pube, if the artworld doesn’t kill you, it will suck the life out of you‘I’m dying. Or this is a panic attack,’ begins Quest Talukdar, protagonist of Poor Artists, a fable about the ills of the artworld by Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad, aka millennial art critics The White Pube. Billed as a mix of fact and fiction, Poor Artists attacks an industry it characterises as bigoted and riddled with inequality.

May 20, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Jonny Diamond |Jake Maynard |Rosanna Mclaughlin |Anne O'Hagen

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “The Modern Prometheus” by .

May 6, 2024 | artreview.com | Rosanna Mclaughlin

If you know anything about Judith Butler, you know that during the 1990s they revolutionised gender theory. But can even they navigate the current gender wars? For at least half a decade I have been living with a debilitating condition. It’s called identity fatigue. Recently it’s got so bad that I worry I’m no longer in control of my actions. If I read one more opinion piece on J. K. Rowling, one more article about how all the tomboys are getting transed, I may sign myself up for a voluntary lobotomy.

Jan 21, 2024 | artreview.com | Rosanna Mclaughlin

Having almost got her cancelled, the pugnacious public-intellectualism of Camille Paglia is trending. Why? Rosanna McLaughlin has a theory, and it’s not prettyFor a while now, a video of Camille Paglia and Susan Sontag has been doing the rounds on social media. The year is 1992. Lounging on a sofa, an irritable Sontag repeatedly insists to her interviewer, Christopher Lydon, that she has no idea who Paglia is. It’s fair to assume she’s lying.