Claire | September 17, 2011
“I agree that the moment we throw judgment and quality out the window, we’re in trouble. Democracy is fine for YouTube, but it’s generally a recipe for disaster when it comes to art. While all words may be created equal, the way in which they’re assembled isn’t; it’s impossible to suspend judgment and folly to [...]
Claire | January 17, 2011
Claire | January 16, 2011
“I often thought back to the terror of my first day – that picture of the road and the Africans walking was always with me – and wondered that the land had been tamed in this way, that such a reasonable life could be extracted from such an uncompromising landscape, that blood, in some way, [...]
Claire | January 20, 2010
I cannot decide what I think of Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which was given to me as a birthday present and is therefore required reading. It is both elusive and precise, disturbing and faintly comforting. It took me a good four chapters to pin down the literary style which it reminded me of [...]
Claire | November 13, 2009
