Towards a Minor Poetry: Reading Twentieth-Century French Poetry with Deleuze–Guattari and Bakhtin

This article argues that the term ‘minor poetry’ gains an additional relevance for experimental twentieth-century poetry which grapples with its own generic identity, deterritorializing established conceptions of poetry, and making ‘minor’ the major poetic discourses on which it is contingent.

Photographing Xinjiang: An Interview with Maxime Matthys

The idea was to create a project that would depict the way these ethnic minority groups live, what their daily lives look like, as well as how the government watches them 24/7.

Review: “Calder-Picasso” at the Musée Picasso, Paris

This question of space — of how something takes up space, deconstructs it or contains it — preoccupied both artists throughout their careers.

“In Your Own Words”: Intertextuality and Erasure in Jacques Roubaud’s Quelque chose noir

This article considers the poetry of Jacques Roubaud, a member of the Oulipo whose constraint-based writing techniques often involve the revision and deformation of source texts.

Split Opinions: Rachel Cusk and the “Outline” Trilogy

Cusk flags up a great truth: other people’s conversations will only ever be filtered through the interpretive prism of the listener.

Review: “Philip Pearlstein at 95” at Galerie Templon, Paris

In contrast to a long history of erotic representations of female nudes, Pearlstein’s models are not sexualized. Their bodies are not offered up to the viewer’s gaze, but are positioned with a strange sort of nonchalant agency.