The ISIS Short Essay Competition: ‘Is it possible to dress rationally?’
Self-Fashioning If I were to dress rationally, I might wear beige. But beige is an ugly word and an uglier colour. If I were to dress rationally, I might do so in the wartime way. But I am as happy to ration my fashion as I am to don beige – that is, not at […]
‘Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being’ [David Foster Wallace]. Is it?
Fucking Being To fucking be or not to be fucking. When so much writing – from song lyrics to medieval poetry – is concerned with sex (the giver, the receiver, the lack, the lust), I wonder whether it is possible to write, not about ‘what it is to be a fucking human being’ but rather [&hellip
