the Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK

Claire-Louise Bennett, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Niamh O’Malley: Brian Dillon shares his highlights from 2015

Brian Dillon considers the 'monstrous homunculi' of Enrico David

The fate of postwar murals in the UK

The life and legacy of the wildly inventive choreographer and performer Loie Fuller

Brian Dillon is a writer and critic, and UK editor of Cabinet magazine. He is the curator of the touring show ‘Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing’, which tours to Newlyn & The Exchange, Penzance (25 January – 26 April). A collection of his essays, Objects in This Mirror, was published recently by Sternberg Press.

On teaching criticism and ‘art writing’

There is a resurgence of interest in the essay, with collections by Jonathan Lethem, John Jeremiah Sullivan and the first biography of David Foster Wallace all published this year. Is it possible to define a form that stretches from Michel de Montaigne to Wayne Koestenbaum, from Virginia Woolf to Chris Marker? Brian Dillon surveys this enigmatic field, and asks whether this centuries-old tradition might be the genre of the future

Brian Dillon visits art historian and novelist Marina Warner to talk about the art, books and objects that have shaped her thinking

The fourth novel from New York-based writer Ben Marcus is a powerful allegory about language

From the failures of Roland Barthes to the joys of sustained looking, four new publications on photography

Cork International Airport

Tate Modern, London, UK

Memory, exile and cultural heritage in the films of Fiona Tan

Raven Row, London, UK

Tracing the history of ruins in art, from 18th-century painting to 21st-century film

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

Giorgio Agamben, trans. David Kishik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford University Press, 2009)