Steph Yorke

I find myself doubling back to Triomf. It’s not really a favourite, but I found a comparison between it and Mrs. Dalloway pretty darn...

The * mid-paragraph is important; please don’t read the first paragraph without also reading the one that follows. Quite a few years ago,...

Big flashing halogen content warning for both the film and the book. Campion's Sweetie often represents disability in a hurtful and...

I only have a copy of Wright's Collected Poems (which doesn't actually have all of his poetry in it -- buyer beware) so what follows is...

I don't know if the Great Resignation is something that's really going on in the world of human actions, or if it's happening primarily...

I dream of an anthology which would bring together the most striking descriptions of old men from poetry. It could be called A Tattered...

Proust, Marcel. Swann’s Way, the first book of In Search of Lost Time. Penguin edition translated by Lydia Davis. MacLeod, Alistair....

Marx, Karl. Capital Volume One: A Critique of Political Economy. Penguin Classics, 1992. Here are a few quotations from Marx's Capital...

Content warning (for the series, not the post) for class stereotypes, racism, homophobia, and antifeminism. Not always/only, but...

Content warning for antifeminism/ableism in these films. Redbeard (1965) This film features one disabled woman and (arguably) one...

There are quite a few Emily Dickinson poems you could read (or wilfully misread) in the context of climate change. “Did we abolish Frost...

Read the poem for a haemophiliac who crashes his motorcycle in Mary Peelen’s Quantum Heresies (“Confessions, 40”) alongside the poem “The...

See "Street Haunting: A London Adventure" in The Collected Essays of Virginia Woolf. Must Have Books: Victoria, BC. Content warning for...

From: Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art by Michael Camille “Physiognomic mockery” (82) “Scurrilous fools and twisted...

“Last” in the Ali Smith collection Public Library. The title story in Raymond Carver’s Cathedral. In both stories, an able-bodied...