The Art of the Nude: Drawings — Bruce Hiscock
The nude is a landscape, all billows and folds, heft, bone and shadow. It’s also the sign of Eros and a training ground for the artist. These drawings are a taste of what Bruce Hiscock can do with a...
View ArticleSquirt: Monologue — John Arthur Sweet
There is a fine line (if any line at all) between some performance art and plain old standup comedy. John Arthur Sweet is a hugely entertaining, subversively ironic monologuist and, judging from...
View ArticleThe Instructor: Novel Excerpt — Ann Ireland
Part way through the opening chapter of Ann Ireland‘s novel The Instructor, the narrator remarks that her putative lover (and art teacher) is like “a scout for some enemy camp, logging facts for a...
View ArticleNuméro Cinq at the Movies: Dash Shaw’s “Seraph,” Introduced by Nicholas...
This month we have a new NC at the Movies contribution from Vancouver (Canada) horror and comedy filmmaker Nicholas Humphries. You might recognize his name from two previous posts on his films “The One...
View ArticleThrough the Night: Novel Excerpt — Stig Sæterbakken
Herewith is “Us.” I’ve chosen this excerpt of Through the Night (Dalkey Archive Press) to illustrate the power of Sæterbakken’s prose, particularly his narrative voice and control of the moment. “Us”...
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