clark chatlainthe entanglement of history: Daša Drndić’s ‘EEG’‘When was all this? Time is getting away from me again, overflowing, it will not be tamed, insane time carries me off into the madhouse of…1 min read·Apr 4, 2021----
clark chatlainCentersin The Infinite Conversation Maurice Blanchot writes, “In Nietzsche’s work there is nothing that might be called a center.” (140) the…2 min read·Mar 19, 2021----
clark chatlainbalance: Kogonada’s ‘Columbus’Columbus is a quiet film. a patient film. like its cinematography, a cinematography that lingers on perfectly framed architecture set…1 min read·Mar 12, 2021----
clark chatlainclose looking: Marina Warner and writing about art‘I believe in close looking…not to pin down the artwork as if it were a thesis or a piece of code, but to touch the springs of the work’s…1 min read·Feb 28, 2021----
clark chatlainon dedicationswhat does it mean to dedicate a work? to dedicate originally meant something like to consecrate, to hand something over to a god or a…4 min read·Feb 21, 2021----
clark chatlainbetween the collection and the individual poemthe first book I read in 2021 was the collection of Pierre Joris’s translations of Paul Celan’s early poems called Memory Rose Into…2 min read·Feb 13, 2021----
clark chatlainthe book and the possibility of the bookperhaps no one since Mallarmé has helped us think about the book so much as Maurice Blanchot. in thinking the book, Blanchot has made…1 min read·Feb 7, 2021----
clark chatlainthe places where I remain no longera face can be an oval of love, an egg of recognition composed of parts only in retrospect. it can be a body. the entire body. of those we…2 min read·Jan 30, 2021----
clark chatlainwith the bare hands: modernism between Eliot and Williamsfor many readers of English poetry, the term ‘modern’ is nearly synonymous with the name TS Eliot. ‘The Waste Land,’ especially, carries…2 min read·Sep 2, 2018----