In this novel by the iconic French feminist theorist, a woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god.

In this novel by the iconic French feminist theorist, a woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god.

In this novel by the iconic French feminist theorist, a woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god.

Wednesday 20th May  6.30pm to 9pm  In this event, translator Sophie Lewis joins poet and translator Beverley Bie Brahic to explore translating Hélène Cixous, the iconic French writer and theorist, and...

Book Launch and Readings

Book Launch and Readings

Kate McNamara and Georgia Katakou talk with Sophie Lewis, translator from the French and Portuguese, about her translation of Hélène Cixous’ Angst . We discuss ‘difficult’ texts, re-translation, and translators’ notes, as well as the types of research translators engage with, the broader work of Hé

A woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god. She is also abandoned by her lover, to whom she is in thrall. She tries repeatedly to make or receive…

What is calling you, poor body, what lifts you, and drags you, what attracts you so late, in those nights, so far into the lands where you are never again truly at home, amid the crowd of lively cr…

What is calling you, poor body, what lifts you, and drags you, what attracts you so late, in those nights, so far into the lands where you are never again truly at home, amid the crowd of lively cr…

February 27, 2026 – “What Lacan figures as structural alienation, Cixous writes as bodily anguish.”

In the past two months, I’ve found myself thinking back to an essay Ursula K. Le Guin posted on her blog in November 2016. It was one of her last long essays, and she wrote it at a time when she—li…

February 27, 2026 – “What Lacan figures as structural alienation, Cixous writes as bodily anguish.”

Sarah Schulman and Morgan M Page explore the late Rachel Pollack’s essay on trans identity, myth and magic. Drinks and signings follow.

Please join us online for an abundant international celebration of Tendrils with readings by contributors from across the world.

A panel celebrating the iconic French feminist writer and theorist Hélène Cixous, and her novel 'Angst', newly translated into English

February 27, 2026 – “What Lacan figures as structural alienation, Cixous writes as bodily anguish.”

A panel celebrating the iconic French feminist writer and theorist Hélène Cixous, and her novel 'Angst', newly translated into English

Canisia Lubrin returns to Between the Covers for a live conversation in downtown Portland, at Powell’s Bookstore, about her latest poetry collection The World After Rain. A private book, that Canisia ...

Ecopoetics of Community and JusticeEdited by fieldnotes collective Pre-order: Publishing February 2026 Tendrils threads through grief, joy and solidarity toward futures shaped by collaboration and car...