of Resonance

THOMAS BERNHARD: …. In the empty void something has always got to happen. NICOLE CASANOVA: Thanks…

Rooney: What are your thoughts on this age old dialectic of free will and determinism? Dugin: I…

Readers at the time, after dividing between those who were stirred (plenty of men among those) and…

The most exclusive love for one person is always love for something else.

In the course of the development of bourgeois society, the culture of the novel as a whole created…

Tonight is the night before the poll: Fighting Tom Teevan has organised a ‘monster rally’ to burn…

I fell into that deep sleep that opens up for us a return to childhood, the rediscovery of years…

from Thomas Bernhard and His Grandfather Johannes Freumbichler by Caroline Markolin

It seemed to me as obvious as it was unthinkable that I alone, a human being with death as his goal,…

John Marcher is a man convinced that he has been chosen for something rare and most terrible. Since…

“You learn something new every day.” Today I learned that you don’t.

In his great and sadly neglected book, The Shape of the Liturgy (1945), Dom Gregory Dix brought out…

Photography acquires a little of the dignity it lacks when it stops being a reproduction of reality…

In contrast to the continually recurring origin embraced by paganism, the touchstone of the death of…

A confounding dualism is inherent to literature: it is nothing and nothing without it. from A…

With women who don’t love us, as with those who have died, knowing we have nothing left to hope for…

When a door is no longer a door.

“It’s like a hole in my life, an eight-year hole. That’s what I find interesting in people’s lives,…

For a long time I thought writing was a job of work. I’m now convinced that it’s an inner event, a…