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.
SNAFU
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It's been 12 days since I posted about the growing menace of the *Trump *government.
It is worse, sadly, since then.
Threats to bomb Iran. Flights to Gr...
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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...
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...
Have you seen the big, new, improved Baroque?
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Here’s a little refresher on the glories that await the reader at our new,
self-hosted site at http://baroqueinhackney.com. The new Baroque is a
bigger and...
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