Steph Yorke

Bishop, Elizabeth. Prose. Ed Lloyd Schwartz. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The short story “The Baptism” by Elizabeth Bishop seems to want a...

Albie Sachs’ Soft Vengeance of Freedom Fighter is not the kind of book I usually pick up; autobiography is way down my list. But I had...

She is my favourite painter. Googling Agnes Martin led me to her book, Writings. The text is available online in various formats, but...

Sherri Benning’s Field Requiem: this book sent me to the dictionary (well, the internet search) again and again. While there’s nothing...

Cited: Herbert, George. "Easter Wings." Pritchard, N.H. The Matrix. Poems 1960-1970. Here are two poems which might be good fun to set...

A couple Christmases ago, a relative got me a FitBit Inspire™. Sometimes I wear it. I had my FitBit Inspire™ on while scrubbing the floor...

“Is there no way out?” Paz, Octavio. New Directions. Trans. Denise Levertov. Akerman, Chantal. Je, Tu, Il, Elle. “Rooms2020.” Originally...

I recently watched Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles for the first time, and I thought it was...

Pozzi, Antonia. Poems. Trans. Peter Robinson. Alma Classics: Richmond, 2011. I don’t read Italian; I’ve only read Pozzi’s poems in...

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...