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My name is Huw Nesbitt, I’m a writer and editor from the UK. In addition to writing essays and criticism for the TLS, Tribune and Review 31, I also edit books and magazines on art, architecture and design. Once upon a time, I was even a gunslinging hack for the Guardian, Dazed, NME and a bunch of other publications that no longer exist, too.
hnesbitt[@]gmail[.]comRECENT
- A critical overview of the work of René Girard for the TLS in honour of the French philosopher’s centenary
- Exercises in Style, a review of Laurent Mauvignier’s The Birthday Party for Tribune
- The Bad Guy Gets Away With It, an essay on Patricia Highsmith’s short stories
- A short review of Maël Renouard’s internet memoir Fragments of an Infinite Memory for the Drift
- A Bunch of Losers, my review of Sam Riviere’s novel Dead Souls for Review 31
- & Weird Objects in Improbable Situations, an essay on The Boiled in Between by Turner Prize-winner Helen Marten for Review 31
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- An essay on the Lebanese artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan for Sleek (2019)
- For Vice, another essay on why US skateboarder Jamie Thomas’ ‘leap of faith’ video deserves to be in a white cube (2018)
- Soundtrack for the Jilted Generation, on the enduring cultural legacy of the Prodigy’s second album for Dazed (2014)
- A feature examining the online world of designer drugs for Dazed (2014)
- In 2015, I interviewed Dutch design duo Metahaven for Sleek
- A profile of the British band These New Puritans for NME (2013)
- The time I went ‘undercover’ in a French anarchist commune for Dazed (2011)
- A small feature for the Guardian on Jorge-Luis Borges’ English translator, the late Norman Thomas di Giovanni (2009)
- A delve into London’s squat clearances and housing crisis for Vice (2013)
- Punk in the DDR – a look at the Berlin scene for NME (2014)
- An interview with the British artist and author Stewart Home for Vice (2013)
- A Q&A with former IRA striker hunger striker Anthony Macintyre (2014)
- & ‘One Hundred’ a short story for Some Such Stories (2015)
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