Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
John Updike
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
John Berger
This week, it's all things naked. Nude? Crude? Perhaps, or possibly some kind of more intimate truth. Things are what they are, default and natural. Naked.
What Has Happened
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Others will say it better - but, here goes my small part in this - I stayed
up last night, as the horror dawned on me, literally and otherwise, that *VP...
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Reading Peter Schjeldahl Peter Schjeldahl builds paragraphs. Possibly no
other critic now writing in English has such a strong sense of what that
unit of...
Are Rappers . . . Secret Oulipians?
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As it's been getting darker and colder over the last few weeks, and the
whole premise of leaving the house looks like a scam designed to entrap the
dimmest...
… & Elizabeth Jane Howard
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I am currently reading the novels of Elizabeth Jane Howard, one after
another, on the advice of Hilary Mantel in the Guardian – she has written
the introdu...
My choice cuts from Edinburgh Fringe
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Just back from Edinburgh, where I saw 20 shows in 5 days. OK, 19. We were 2
minutes late for one, and missed out. Two of the shows were at the Book
Festiva...
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