De Britse schrijfster Joanna Walsh houdt zich bezig met literaire en culturele kritiek. Haar teksten zijn verschenen in vooraanstaande literaire tijdschriften en zijn opgenomen in belangrijke bloemlezingen. Walsh zet zich in voor de stemmen van vrouwen in de literatuur, met name door de creatie van de breed erkende #readwomen beweging. Haar bijdragen worden geprezen om hun scherpzinnige perspectief en hun pleidooi voor gendergelijkheid binnen de literaire wereld.
Seed’s narrator is on the threshold of adulthood, living in an English valley in the late 1980s when life is overshadowed by fears of nuclear contagion, AIDS and CJD. Composed in narrative threads of poetic prose, Seed explores universal themes of restriction and desire, delving deep into the narrator’s subjective consciousness and demonstrating the polyphonic discourse – fashion magazines, art, public health advice – and relationships that shape her becoming.
A dinosaur father and child share their day, from morning yawns to fantastic bedtime stories, in a celebration of the many wonderful things about fathers
A book-length essay on beauty and revolution as seen through the work of Jean-Luc Godard.00As Joanna Walsh watches the films of Jean-Luc Godard, she considers beauty and desire in life and art. ?There?s a resistance, in Godard?s women,? writes Walsh, ?that is at the heart of his work (and theirs).? She is captivated by the Paris of his films and the often porous border between the city presented on screen and the one she inhabited herself. With cool precision, and in language that shines with aphoristic wit, Walsh has crafted an exquisitely intimate portrait of the way attention to works of art becomes attention to changes in ourselves. Taut and gem-like, My Life as a Godard Movie is a probing meditation by one of our most observant writers.00My Life as a Godard Movie is part of the Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books.0
Exploring various types of hugs, this delightful sequel invites readers on a journey to discover the perfect embrace. With vibrant illustrations and engaging content, it captures the warmth and affection associated with hugs, making it a charming read for young audiences.
This is a woman as a mother, daughter, wife, spectator, lover, mistress. She shifts between roles, countries, and languages. Skilled and successful, she controls how much she cares. Yet as every new woman emerges and every new story is told, the calm surfaces of Joanna Walsh's Vertigo shatter, pulling us into the panic underlying everyday life.
"In this "novel in essays," Joanna Walsh simultaneously flees and pursues an ambiguous partner in an affair conducted mostly online. Traversing Europe, she awaits emails and texts and PMs, awash in her dreams, offering succinct meditations on connection and communication. If Marguerite Duras situated the telephone as the twentieth century's preferred hopeless form of connection, Walsh pinpoints the nodal points of a "romance" within today's mesh of electronic communication."--P. 4 of cover.
This is the question Walsh's narrator must reckon with as she travels across Europe after the end of a love affair conducted largely online. This pilgrimage through 'offline' space dictated by chance - on railways, on buses, on planes and, above all, on foot - wrestles with the dangers of converting longing into language, and reclaims and reshapes the territory of the male travel writer by creating personal and innovative maps of cities by which Walsh navigates the complexities of modern love.This is a work about borders - between places, people, genres - and how we might cross them. Challenging the divisions between intellect and intimacy, Walsh blends the personal and the critical to tell a mystery story about her own reality. But Break.up also challenges the borders between fiction and non-fiction, ranging widely into eclectic essays on music, boredom, shame, photography, marriage, art. From Rome to Budapest, Freud to Foucault, algorithms to nostalgia, this is a stimulating, original work which dismantles what we know of love, and how we make art from it, and finds a new form and language for the way we love now.
This collection cements Joanna Walsh's reputation as one of the sharpest writers of this century. Wearing her learning lightly, Walsh's stories make us see the world afresh, from a freewheeling story on cycling (and Freud), to a country in which words themselves fall out of Fashion -- something that will never happen wherever Walsh is read.
Exploring the juxtaposition of hotels and home, the narrative delves into how hotels serve as both a refuge and a contrast to the pressures of modern life. It presents a witty and imaginative examination of the alienation felt in hotel settings, portraying them as a necessary escape from the hyper-connected world. The book invites readers to reflect on the complexities of belonging and solitude in contemporary society.
What happens when a woman goes online? She becomes a girl.