This article thinks about the connections between performance, repetition and pleasure by drawing on Lacanian theory. It examines the temporal and spatial experience of desire's perpetual unfulfillment through Marco ...

This article explores the ethics of reading across difference in a secular literary marketplace that is increasingly invested in representations by and of Muslims. Focusing on Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire (2017), it considers ...

The work I look at here responds particularly to being part of a new class known as Generation Rent. Facing what critic Lauren Berlant has influentially termed the ‘cruel optimism’ of desiring something which actually ...