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Contributor
Esmé Hogeveen

Esmé Hogeveen is a writer based between Tkaronto/Toronto and Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. Her writing has appeared in Another Gaze: Feminist Film Journal, Artforum, Border Crossings, The Brooklyn Rail, Canadian Art and cléo.

Books , Interviews
Maggie Nelson’s ‘Like Love’ Explores the Magic of Paying Attention

The author speaks about the importance of transgression in art and why her latest book is dedicated to the poet Eileen Myles

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Books , Opinion
The Self-Conscious Distance of Natasha Stagg’s ‘Artless’

Spanning stories, fragmentary essays and press releases, the author’s new collection veers between Joan Didion-esque social studies and pseudo-blasé reportage

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Books , Interviews
The Transactional Dynamics Between Art and Sex in ‘Working Girl’

In her new book, Sophia Giovannitti reflects on sex work as labour and its parallels to the art market  

BY Esmé Hogeveen |
Books , Opinion
Philippa Snow on the Strains of Violence in Culture

The author's debut book, Which As You Know Means Violence, reveals the politics of self-injury in performance art and contemporary culture

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Books , Opinion
Amber Husain On How the Collective Can Counter Neoliberalism

Esmé Hogeveen reviews the writer's new book Replace Me (2021), which tackles replaceability against a backdrop of employment precarity in the arts and academia  

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Reviews
At MASS MoCA, Cauleen Smith Builds an Afrofuturist World

In the artist’s largest survey to date, science fiction and narratives of black resistance offer a vision of a more inclusive future

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