Brian Dillon

How do we read The Sexual Life of Catherine M in the age of #MeToo and autofiction?

On the centenary of the photographer’s birth, an outtake of his iconic portrait of William Casby, a self-conscious image captured alongside five generations of his family

In essays covering Samuel Beckett to Tacita Dean, the writer reflects on irresistible artworks

The writer presents a playlist which captures Kate Bush's digital psychedelia

Brian Dillon on the 40th anniversary of the singer’s lesser-known record, The Dreaming

Brian Dillon on the television programme’s museum of images and memories 

The artist’s first novel proceeds by image and incantation rather than much in the way of explicit plot

From enfant terrible of British ballet to a retrospective at the Barbican Gallery, how the choreographer and performer found a home in the contemporary art world 

‘There is pain and suffering in these pictures, but also pure possibility’

Learning to survive a jittering feed of survivalist pro tips and transhumanist dreck

In ‘Coventry’, events seem to happen to somebody else, to a person Cusk repeatedly exposes and judges

‘It’s the way he talks about his own death that amazed then and impresses today’

Found first in the pages of NME, an homage to the critic who brought an antic traduction of high French theory to the study of contemporary pop

The politics of the choco-pie, a materialist account of ‘cultural appropriation’ and Acid Corbynism: what to read this weekend

Revision and revolt in the work of Nairy Baghramian

From the Women's Strike to a march that cancels itself out: what to read this weekend

Author and poet Susan Stewart's new book shows her abiding concern with lyric

From Umberto Eco on fascism to Thomas Pynchon’s stand-in: what to read this weekend

Tate Modern, London, UK

From Michael Gove to Mary Hurrell to Orange is The New Black, the year in review