T.J. Clark

Jan 15, 2025 | lrb.co.uk | T.J. Clark

‘Television Was a Baby Crawling towards That Deathchamber.’ These words are by Allen Ginsberg, writing in 1961, the title of a poem anathematising America. ‘It is here, the long Awaited bleap-blast light that Speaks one red tongue like Politician.’ The most chilling word in Ginsberg’s title strikes me as ‘That’. It knows we know what it refers to. But maybe, ultimately, even the ‘That’ offers a glimmer of hope – doesn’t it put us still outside the killing machine?

Sep 18, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Adam Shatz |T.J. Clark

Frantz Fanon​ is a thing of the past. It doesn’t take long, reading the story of his life – the Creole childhood in Martinique, volunteering to fight for the Free French in the Second World War, his career in Lyon as arrogant young psychiatrist, the part he played in the war in Algeria, the encounters with Nkrumah and Lumumba, his death at the age of 36 – to realise that his is a voice coming to us from a vanished world. ‘Annihilated’ might be more accurate.

Sep 6, 2024 | sciencedirect.com | T.J. Clark

Hysteroscopy is one of the most common procedures in gynaecology [1], [2], [3]. In many countries, the majority of diagnostic and operative hysteroscopic procedures are performed in a convenient, outpatient setting with the patient awake [2], [3]. Women avoid the need for hospital admission and benefit from quick recovery [4]. However, up to a third of women experience severe pain with outpatient hysteroscopy causing poor patient experience and procedural failure [5], [6], [7], [8].

Mar 27, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | T.J. Clark

The island on Eagle Pond is a ruin. The trunk of a long dead treeArches in agony into the water,Not so much hollow as disemboweled. Six clumps of municipal daffodils struggle for life on earthSterilised by goose shit and particulates. The A24 has no mercy. South London is not all like this, I hasten to add. Ten minutes walk down Crescent Lane,Past the Catholic primary with its cuddly Virgin, you round a corner and come acrossA temple facing a Stonehenge of LCC flats. The flats are decaying.

Aug 10, 2023 | thenation.com | Adam Nayman |Jeet Heer |Rosemarie Ho |T.J. Clark

Culture / Books & the Arts / August 10, 2023And can we understand his vision of Hollywood from this strange artifact? Ad PolicyThe title of Tom Hanks’s first novel, The Making of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece, certainly sounds sarcastic: The proximity of the words “another” and “masterpiece” suggests a pithy, dishy critique of the industry that he conquered.