Brian Castro

Blindness and Deafness in Literary Reception

Unvarnished ‘truth’ in literature is of course only relative to the position of the speaker and often used as a bludgeoning tool.

Sensible Seeing: A Place in the Country by W.G. Sebald

In its six essays on five writers and a painter, his gaze operates like a form of scansion, picking up the long and short sounds (moments musicaux as Sebald calls them, via Schubert) in order to get behind the art in all its grief and consolation,...

Literature and Fashion

Much of what I read in the field of criticism these days is not purely literary criticism... but essays which are also fictions, perhaps referring to literary works in passing, in order to reference, interrogate and explore culture: its fashions,

Ludus et Paidia: Blindness and Rage by Brian Castro

Moods and mirrors: Street to Street by Brian Castro

In Street to Street, Brian Castro resurrects Christopher Brennan in all his defensive, creative brilliance and personal and professional failure.