Zsofia Paulikovics is a writer based in London.
Throughout her career, Rachel Cusk has been a forensic chronicler of her own middle-class neuroses. Parade, her latest novel, transmutes the brutal self-examination that she perfected in her memoirs into fiction.
Ahead of the release of his new film, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Romanian film director Radu Jude spoke to Jacobin about political art, why TikTok is cinema, and the problem with making films aimed at everyone.
Originally published in 1983 and recently reissued, My Search for Warren Harding follows a failing academic and self-loathing gay man who attempts to seduce his way into the life of a former president’s mistress. It’s a forgotten classic of biting humor.