Month: March 2024

Ghosts don’t get more convincing or scary than this twin possession. Who hasn’t seen ‘shadows dancing in a corner … as shadows tend to do’ (126)? Nothing to see, settle down neck hairs, it’s you,  ‘she doesn’t have to be there’ (1,026).

How quickly a new normal can overtake the fear of losing peace. In the shadow of Gaza the rapidity with which surveillance shifts to panic, rioting, homelessness, death. All the costs of war. Clutch your pearls as you read this, white woman.

Known facts hidden in full view, this deep research centres on a villain pathological enough to make a reader think not-me until the shock of his freedom sinks in. Historical records as curated fragments, an art as polished as a memorial statue.