“That’s how quickly your life can change”
Adam Thirlwell’s Serpentine Bridge Commission and everyday prophecy. “…prophetic speech, which tells of the impossible future, also tells of the ‘nonetheless’ that breaks the impossible and restores time.”
“Take that you intellectuals!” and “kaPOW!”
NoM editor Alison Gibbons has published an article in Studia Neophilologica on the British novelist Adam Thirlwell and metamodernist style (2014, 1-15). This is the abstract: In 1990, John Frow was asking the question, already in past tense, “What was Postmodernism?”, while Linda Hutcheon, in the epilogue to the second edition of her seminal book The Politics of …
“I agree to this”: Third Angel and the Price of Fame
Hi. My name is Rachel. I’m 36 years old, I’m happily married and I agree to this.[1] These words, a recorded sound bite voiced over a motionless studio stage, open Third Angel’s latest production The Life and Loves of a Nobody, which began its international tour in Sheffield, UK, last week. These opening words are, …
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A Tale for the Time Being
Reading Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being, now in 2013, I find myself in no doubt that the book is exactly that – a tale for the time being. Indeed, the novel appears to speak to the present…