Ben Lerner

Lingering in the ‘instant before music’, the poet and novelist’s new collection is grounded by sharp materiality

Other highlights include the return of Zamrock band WITCH, Ben Lerner’s divisive book of poetry and a piano interlude with Mahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

The Canadian painter’s new work offers a ‘vivid experience of perception without vivid percepts’

‘Sekula’s sentences have their own nautical rhythm that brings incommensurate scales of experience into sudden relation’

Curators Tom Eccles and Amy Zion take a literary theme for 2018

From Alexander Kluge on poetry to Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism: what to read this weekend

Hal Foster and Ben Lerner discuss criticism, poetry, painting and what it means to despise the thing you love most

The framing of art and life in Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers

Are objects more real than words? Or, how poet and novelist Ben Lerner stopped being jealous and learned to love the virtual