Filling the Void: Exploring Female Connection in Loneliness Feature by Zoë Abrahams As I get off the metro, I find the streets of Rotterdam deserted. The wet ground reflects the flickering stoplights alerting me to cross the road. It has just stopped raining, but the air is still sticky and weighs heavy on my skin.Continue reading
Category Archives: RevUU Autumn 2022
He’s Not a ‘Man Written by a Woman’ – You’re Just Ignoring All of His Red Flags as Far as Coco Mellors’ Cleopatra and Frankenstein Is Concerned Review by Moe Yonezawa Coco Mellors, a woman, writes Frank, a man, who has positive and charming qualities, but is in no way a character any man shouldContinue reading
I am everything: Literature Crossing Ethnical and Sexual Borders Feature by Dick Hogeweij I am half Surinamese and half Groninger, my ancestors came from China and France, I love men, I am brown and have blue eyes, a Dutch mother and a Surinamese father. This is the way Raoul de Jong introduces himself in aContinue reading
Dear Poet, Stay in Your Lane Feature by Laurine Tavernier Does poetry stop where politics begin? Well it does, according to Nabilla Ait Daoud, a politician for the Flemish-nationalist right-wing party N-VA and member of the Council for Culture of Antwerp. She recently rejected one of Ruth Lasters’ poems, Losgeld (‘Ransom’), as a “city poem”Continue reading
Introduction: Surfacing / Resurfacing By Jared Meijer and Kenau Bester What is silence? Something of the sky in us.There will be evidence, there will be evidence.Let them speak of air and its necessities. Whatever they will open, will open. Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic, “Such Is The Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air” TheContinue reading
’Maybe Love and Loneliness Are Not that Different After All’: A Dialogue about Klara and the Sun Creative Criticism by Aristi Makrygiannaki 1 “Have you started reading Klara and the Sun?” “Well… no, to be honest.” “Come on, why? You love Ishiguro’s stories, and I got it for you because I really wanted us toContinue reading
The Other Child: Witnessing Chronic Illness Creative Criticism by Jared Meijer The Other Child When she was eight, Alice found her mother collapsed on the kitchen floor. By age ten, she and her mother shared a diagnosis, that of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or ME. “I remember feeling almost pleased with my diagnosis, even if IContinue reading
Only Two Questions at Three in the Morning: A Review of No One is Talking About This Review by José Dorenbos Last summer I bought Patricia Lockwood’s No One is Talking About This on a whim, while wandering through a bookstore on one of the hottest days of the year. I was wearing a dressContinue reading
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