A journey into the dark heart of sport: Anna Krien’s “Night Games”
The William Hill 2014 Sports Book of the Year covers the rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer — but also raises broader questions about how…
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Jacques Lacan: inspiring and infuriating in equal measure
A new biography explores the power dynamics of psychoanalysis.
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Juliet Jacques on Hélène Cixous: The Medusa gets the last laugh
Cixous argued that rather than undermining the class struggle, militant women would “push it forward” to prevent it “from…
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Janet Mock: “Who will ever love you if you tell the truth?”
Juliet Jacques talk to US journalist Janet Mock about her book Redefining Realness.
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Nanni Balestrini’s “Tristano”: the love story with 100 trillion possible plotlines
Digital technology has finally made it possible for Tristano to be printed as the author intended. But should it…
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The first major exhibition of Hannah Höch is being held at the Whitechapel Gallery.
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Too little has been written about the Brighton-born novelist, Ann Quin, whose writing ruptured middle class pieties.
ByIs enough being done to remove unfair obstacles to transsexual people playing football?
Progress on their participation is being made – but not quickly enough.
ByFrom Morning to Midnight: a fiercely anti-Naturalistic epitome of the Expressionist style
Georg Kaiser’s Expressionist morality tale at the National Theatre.
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