Rouzbeh Shadpey’s lyric essay attempts to triangulate thirst, hope, and illness on the page proffering a fragmented meditation on futility and its metaphor: the fountain.

An exploration of the role of digression, deferral, unrealised action, and impatience in literature and aesthetic experience, via Flaubert, Shklovsky, Feldman, and Hejinian.

M. Elijah Sueuga’s latest column piece looks at Hew Locke’s animated parade of figures installed at the Tate Britain, meditating on anticolonialism and the politics of artistic compromise

M. Elijah Sueuga contemplates Tigran Hamasyan's live jazz performance at the Barbican considering the history of jazz, ancestry, and deracination

So Mayer’s review of ‘The Books of Jacob’ looks at how Olga Tokarczuk explores Jacob Frank as a border-dweller; as a Jew who converted to both Islam and Christianity; as a Messiah who numinously embodies the Divine in the material plane; and as a patriarch whose body subversively expresses queer and trans desires.

This essay situates Joe Luna's poem Development Hell both within and outside of the tradition of katabasis, in the process positing a new, 'cacobatic' literary mode

In this long-read, Azad Ashim Sharma explores race, avant-gardism, and methodologies of literary criticism.

Marie Buck's essay is a reply, critique and contextualisation of Joe Luna's 'Writing for Freedom', published last week on the Hythe.

Joe Luna considers the claims made for and on behalf of poetry by the radical Bay Area press, Commune Editions.