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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 30/08/2025

‘Leigh Bowery once planned to walk up to the bar at Taboo with an axe and chop off his own hand, but he chickened out.’ @briangdillon.bsky.social on the performance artist and London nightclub impresario, on show at Tate Modern until Sunday: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Brian Dillon · At Tate Modern: ‘Leigh Bowery!’

For a while, Leigh Bowery touted himself as a legitimate if outré fashion designer, but it’s clear from the Tate show...

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Brian Dillon @briangdillon.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

An excellent thread by @larapawson.bsky.social about this "overlooked men" dimwittery. Interesting that the Guardian piece about Conduit Books is backed up with old quotes from Murdoch editors/reviewers.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

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Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic

The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...

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Fallow Media @fallowmedia.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A little piece about bringing Fallow into the world of print, in the Irish Times today.

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Arvon @arvonfoundation.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This May, spend a week in Devon exploring essays—a form with limitless possibilities. Tutored by prizewinning journalist, essayist and non-fiction writer @chitgrrl.bsky.social, writer and publisher Will Rees, plus special guest @briangdillon.bsky.social. More info: www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

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Residential Writing Course: The Essay | One form, infinite possibilities | Arvon

What constitutes an essay, and why write one? Are there limits to what this ancient form can do, where it can go, or what it might contain? How do we know when an essay is done and how we might go abo...

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Brian Dillon @briangdillon.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Aside from the fact that it's a very cool gold-topped cane, what a demented thing to write. Are they waiting for some smirking bearded (white) bro-infant in a too-tight suit to show them the way?

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"A well-meaning focus on last words may miss a person’s last efforts at communication and connection. So too, perhaps unexpectedly, the words of the very young." @briangdillon.bsky.social reviews "Bye Bye I Love You" for 4Columns: 4columns.org/dillon-brian/bye-bye-i…

A copy of "Bye Bye I Love You" by Michael Erard standing on a table.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/02/2025

‘The best songs on 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 are the ones she co-wrote. The original mix was less spacious, more of itself, less of the time and more of her times.’ Lavinia Greenlaw on Marianne Faithfull: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Lavinia Greenlaw · Short Cuts: On Marianne Faithfull

By the end of 1979, hesitation had given way to dread. We fully expected to be facing the end of the world. Margaret...

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

They’ve DerryLondonDerried the Gulf of Mexico

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Brian Dillon @briangdillon.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

David Johansen, the last of the New York Dolls, has stage four cancer and a broken back, but lives in a country where even a wildly famous musician and actor cannot afford healthcare. You can help him and his family here. www.sweetrelief.org/davidjohanse...

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The Dublin Review @thedublinreview.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The Dublin Review number ninety-seven | WINTER 2024-25 features work by Brian Davey, Karen O’Reilly, Eimear Ryan, Susannah Dickey, Aisling Flynn, Juliana Adelman, and Arnold Thomas Fanning. To buy or subscribe visit thedublinreview.com/product/subscription/

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18/01/2025

‘Bristling missiles are one of Kennard’s motifs; variously resembling a nest of knives or sprouting crystals, the warheads protrude from a gas mask worn by the Earth or lurk inside the half-opened dome of a nuclear reactor.’ @briangdillon.bsky.social on Peter Kennard: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Brian Dillon · At the Whitechapel: On Peter Kennard

Can the art of political photomontage continue to function as print declines and memes both crude and ingenious...

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Hello Bluesky! Please enjoy D. Graham Burnett’s essay for issue 60, “Notes Toward a History of Skywriting,” featuring this lovely image by Robert Hill, unlocked for a limited time. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/60/bu...

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

This such a beautifully tender piece

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Brian Dillon @briangdillon.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

When @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social asked me to write about Christmas with Delia for @vittles.bsky.social, thoughts also turned inevitably to Christmases past. What does Delia provide, alongside all the failsafe recipes? Absolution from Christmas melancholy! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-cant-g...