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Elena Ferrante, Zadie Smith, and the Politics of Feminine (In)Visibility

Alice Blackhurst

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Elena Ferrante, Zadie Smith, and the Politics of Feminine (In)Visibility

Look at me / (don’t look at me) / Look at me / (don’t look at me) / Look at me don’t look at me look at me look at me don’t look at me don’t / look / (Look) / (Don’t look) / I can’t stand it if you don’t look / Look / Look / Please / Stop.
In this passage from Kate Zambreno’s 2011 novel Green Girl, a dynamic usually obscured from the project of female authorship is exposed. Zambreno’s…

January 12
Alice Blackhurst
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The podcast is an audio-essay in three parts: an Editorial, where we’ll give our spin on the episode’s theme, a Feature, an in-depth discussion on the theme, and a Pull Quote, where we’ll draw on texts related to that theme. The episode’s theme will bring together two of our previous essays, which we’ll announce the week before we air.

With Trump and Clinton locking horns on Twitter…

November 1
The Editors
Brains & Bowels
Dec 11 / Rob Oldham

Irony (mostly)

Once I went to a nightclub with some friends. I bought a ticket in advance because I still carry this…

Now & Then
Aug 14 / Aron Penczu

Framing Son of Saul

All art since the Shoah has been ethically contested, and art taking the Holocaust as its object occupies uniquely unstable…

Now & Then
Jul 19 / Rivkah Brown

Black Bodies Matter

The privileging of ‘hard news’ – national and global politics, business and financial markets – has mired journalism in the…

Brains & Bowels
May 1 / Archie Cornish

Head Over Heels: the Playful Astronaut

At Lunchtime GMT, 15 January this year, I watched Tim Peake’s spacewalk. Like many live transmissions, the first venture into…

Brains & Bowels
Apr 10 / Francis Blagburn

‘Touch My Soul’: Shia LaBeouf and the Art of Connecting

“Real artists rarely wear bags on their heads.” So wrote Jonathan Jones, the Guardian’s art critic, of Shia LaBeouf’s first performance…

Now & Then
Mar 13 / Kirsten Tambling

Country Shade and Lemonade: The Beach Boys and the Fête Galante

Country shade and lemonade Guess I’m slowing down It’s a turned back world With a local girl In a smaller…

Brains & Bowels
Feb 2 / Sadhbh O'Sullivan

‘The One with the Boobies’ – Sexism, Phonaesthetics and the Language of Anatomy

For a show that ended 12 years ago people really do talk about Friends constantly, don’t they? At the moment…

Ink & Other Animals
Jan 24 / Helen Charman

“Would you have married her?”: on ‘Divers’ and ’45 Years’

And it pains me to say, I was wrong. Love is not a symptom of time time is just a…

Brains & Bowels
Dec 13 / Ben Pope

Size Matters

In July of this year Marvel Studios released the superhero-heist caper Antman. In the film, a penniless thief played by comedy-millionaire Paul…

Now & Then
Dec 6 / Jake Farrell

“What is a lasagne?”: Nostalgia, Pastiche and Working Class Experience

When Shelagh Delaney’s play A Taste of Honey premiered in 1957, it was remarkable for its abrupt rejection of the…

Brains & Bowels
Nov 15 / Archie Cornish

Floating Signifiers: Thoughts on the Figure

Last year I was walking along a beach towards a Martello tower, when I saw a figure perched on its…

Fields & Buildings
Nov 5 / Nicholas de Klerk

Accidents of History

The link, in its own abrupt, taciturn way, perhaps brings the Academy into dialogue with this group of buildings. Might…

Brains & Bowels
Oct 18 / Tommy Shane

All the Lonely People: On Urban Invisibility

‘Somehow, you just vanish.’ These are the words of Kristin Scott Thomas, who said in an interview with The Telegraph…

Ink & Other Animals
Oct 11 / Jack Parlett

The Lie of Beauty: Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘A Little Life’

The artist David Wojnarowicz recalls, in a 1989 essay he wrote after his HIV diagnosis, a time he spent ‘standing…

Now & Then
Sep 28 / Christopher Barrett-Lennard

Black Mountain College: Searching the Self

John Rice sits alone in a modest bedroom at Robert E Lee Hall, a three-story YMCA assembly building in the…

Brains & Bowels
Sep 20 / Ben Pope

‘Café Chocolate’: Teletubbies’ Sublime Horizons

I often tell people that Teletubbies gave me a sense of the sublime. For those of you who by some…

Ink & Other Animals
Sep 13 / Helen Charman

The Art of Letting Be: Against Diary-Keeping

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!…

Brains & Bowels
Sep 6 / Amrou Al-Kadhi

Against Equality: On Maintaining Queer Space

“Marriage is the proverbial burning building. Instead of pounding on the door to be let in…queers should be stoking the…

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