Negative Space by Cristin Leach

Negative Space by Cristin LeachIn a series of layered essays, art critic Cristn Leach writes about the gaps between reality and perception, about writing and anxiety, body and brain, breaking and making, succeeding and failing, conventionality and independence. The non linear structure of the essays, with repeats, retakes, and deliberately unsaid or missing information, mimics the gaps in memory and understanding that are part of the human condition, especially during times of

an aspiring poet

It is a story of the binding love of family and home

William Blake is one of Britain's most fascinating writers

When Harold's father challenges him to catch his first chicken

'Jaw-dropping from the first word to the last

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the terror and confusion of the front

This mastery of weird and unspeakable terror is underpinned by the writer's sizeable contribution to Gothic fiction

and on 21 November 1920

a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon

the frustrations of aid workers

exciting and surprising as hell' Ron Howard