My interview with Rebecca Bengal, originally published by Lunate (who are now unfortunately offline), now on my Substack. It’s a good interview: open.substack.com/pub/connorh/...
The Rebecca Bengal Interview (2024)
(Originally published by Lunate)
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“In poetry the ‘I’ is not necessarily always the same ‘I’ as the author, so try to keep an open mind while listening, alright? Alright. The title of this next poem is ‘That’s a Great Question, John - Let’s Unpack That’”
A puff of smoke leaves the Ian Fleming estate. The new 007 has been elected. It’s an XL Bully. “I can’t believe it,” he tells media. “I only wish my mum was here to see.”
Featuring: @davidcollard.bsky.social on the horrors of ‘Poet Voice’. Arjuna Keshvani-Ham in conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyên. @harrysunsee.bsky.social on the directionless optimism of ‘Orbital’. Francesca Wade on Gertrude Stein. Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
My third gallery café column for @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social - this time I’m at the Royal Academy of Art, eating raspberry cake and looking at The Last Supper, over and over and over again… open.substack.com/pub/boundles...
The last supper again and again
Connor Harrison takes a trip to the RA, for the latest offering in his series of columns about the best and the oddest museum and gallery cafes
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Because of Jeanette Winterson, I believed for the longest time that Napoleon actually had chickens’ feet cut off, as to save space transporting them across Europe.
My third gallery café column for @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social - this time I’m at the Royal Academy of Art, eating raspberry cake and looking at The Last Supper, over and over and over again… open.substack.com/pub/boundles...
The last supper again and again
Connor Harrison takes a trip to the RA, for the latest offering in his series of columns about the best and the oddest museum and gallery cafes
open.substack.com
Measuring Niagara with a Teaspoon, by Cornelia Parker Showing my ignorance, I’ve only just discovered Parker’s work (though I had seen the exploded shed somewhere before). This one took me by surprise.
The sliced lemon by Judas’ hand at The Last Supper.
Very grateful to @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social for letting me write this column, going into London museums and review the cake, the art, the *ambience* Here I am at the Hunterian Museum (warning: images of a surgical and/or carrot cake nature): www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/carrot-cak...
Carrot cake and formaldehyde
For the second part of our series on reviewing museum cafes, Connor Harrison heads to the corporeal Hunterian
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Very grateful to @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social for letting me write this column, going into London museums and review the cake, the art, the *ambience* Here I am at the Hunterian Museum (warning: images of a surgical and/or carrot cake nature): www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/carrot-cak...
Carrot cake and formaldehyde
For the second part of our series on reviewing museum cafes, Connor Harrison heads to the corporeal Hunterian
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A new column with Boundless Magazine, where I get to drink coffee in gallery cafés, look at the art, come home and write about it. open.substack.com/pub/boundles...
Cappuccino art at the National Portrait Gallery
In the first part of our new series on reviewing the eateries at London’s galleries and museums, Connor Harrison enjoys a quick coffee at the Audrey Green where customer satisfaction has been variable
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A new column with Boundless Magazine, where I get to drink coffee in gallery cafés, look at the art, come home and write about it. open.substack.com/pub/boundles...
Cappuccino art at the National Portrait Gallery
In the first part of our new series on reviewing the eateries at London’s galleries and museums, Connor Harrison enjoys a quick coffee at the Audrey Green where customer satisfaction has been variable
open.substack.com
My interview with the incredibly talented Rebecca Bengal - on photography, language and her book Strange Hours - at @lunatejournal.bsky.social, one of my favourite publications.
This is an older essay now - on reading the bible, visiting the Louvre, and interpretation - one whose writing I am more ambivalent about as time passes, but I think it holds up: t.co/hUlq0RtPTu
[Essay] My Own Personal Jesus — Connor Harrison
"There is perhaps nothing in the Louvre as widely depicted as Jesus and his life. He dogs you down every hall and corridor, fabricated by so many hundreds of dead hands."
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I have a piece in the new Spring issue of Montreal Review of Books, reviewing two inventive, charming comic books (with a mention of one of my favourite Montreal exports, Spiritfarer). mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/betw...
Between Gentlemen & Botanica Drama • Montreal Review of Books
While Bottenberg's deceptively simple collection of stories changes shape after each new read, Thom’s evokes a complete and casual mythos.
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