Waste Not Tragedy

Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst: The Call

A review of Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst's debut solo exhibition at Serpentine North in London, curated by Eva Jaeger.

Feb 1, 2025 • Jessica

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April 2024

Matthias Groebel: phantoms all around me

A review of Matthias Groebel’s debut solo exhibition in the UK curated by Hannes Schmidt, which opened Thursday 14 March 2024.

Apr 20, 2024 • Jessica

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January 2024

The Brothers Disconsolate

French authors Emmanuel Carrère and Michel Houellebecq approach the Yin & Yang of contemporary ennui in Yoga and Submission

Jan 5, 2024 • Jessica

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May 2023

The Discreet Charm of the Bovary

What Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary tells us about contemporary relations between men and women

May 2, 2023 • Jessica

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December 2022

Mailer's Dick

Reflections on Norman Mailer’s infamous 1971 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show

Dec 1, 2022 • Jessica

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July 2022

Thoroughly Modern Misery

Those who take a calculating approach to socializing may find, like "thoroughly modern" Millie Lammoreaux, that true love and friendship elude them.

Jul 2, 2022 • Jessica

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May 2022

The Indignity of Being Audience

A Meditation on Unrequited Love and Parasocial Desire.

May 31, 2022 • Jessica

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Two Years Alive

What Houellebecq’s account of H.P. Lovecraft's biography can tell us about the contemporary NEET.

May 27, 2022 • Jessica

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The Impossibility of Imagining a Boy on TikTok as an Adult Man

A contemporary reading of Germaine Greer's The Beautiful Boy

May 13, 2022 • Jessica

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Puella aeternus

On the perversity of the eternal child, as depicted in Michael Haneke's "The Piano Teacher" (2001)

May 5, 2022 • Jessica

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Welcome

“Wasted lives make waste, not tragedy.” - Kenneth Anger, Hollywood Babylon

May 4, 2022 • Jessica

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