Borges on Writing [book review]
Like many other Anglophone readers, I assumed for a long time that Borges wrote primarily fiction, which meant that I had been overlooking roughly half of his writing. This book of essays (Jorge Luis Borges...
Category: magic
Field Green: Book Review
It must be a memoir. A reader — or a fact-checker — could challenge any number of things, especially names, including the name of the author. But there can be no doubt about the...
Re-reading the Picture of Dorian Gray
I’ve never really been attracted to the horror genre. The story invariably seems too contrived to be plausible. I need the horror to be real. The Picture of Dorian Gray is definitely a horror...
Magical Consciousness
This is the title of an exhibition that opened a few days ago at the Arnolfini Museum in Bristol. The promotional copy mentions Flusser (http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/details/926) as having furnished some of supporting ideas for the exhibition....