On The Princess of 72nd Street, Find Him!, and the experimental feminist novelist whose work deserves rediscovery.
Witches, unruly bodies and the old cultural terror of women who refuse to remain contained.
Chris Kraus turns her attention to screens, distraction and the strange texture of contemporary life.
A joyous spectacle of camp sexuality, megawatt pop performance and surprise guests in Hyde Park.
A campus novel meets an omen of environmental doom in Missouri Williams’s darkly comic new book.
A close reading of West End Girl: lush pop surfaces, private collapse and the stories songs tell about intimacy.
How Lana Del Rey turned pop mythology, doomed romance and the American landscape into a singular body of work.
On the contradictions beneath pop’s most commercially successful story of self-possession.
An essay on London, mortality and what remains visible as a city changes around us.
A journey through the strange, intimate objects that carry London’s cultural memory.
Essays and occasional dispatches from Hannah Williams, delivered by newsletter.
The Paris bookshop’s transformation from modernist landmark into a literary tourist destination.
The filmmaker’s anxious histories, hypnotic archive montages and unexpected appeal to a younger left.
A consideration of correspondence: an object, a literary form and a way of addressing another person across distance.
