ED LUKER
Writer; Reader; Critic; Finding joy in a broken world.
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My 24-hour Caravaggio bender - Plaster Magazine
My 24-hour Caravaggio bender - Plaster Magazine
10 years ago, Ed Luker saw a Caravaggio in Rome and wept. Now he returns on a pilgrimage to see 32 paintings in one day
Essay on Glazer & Oppenheimer – Monochromator Magazine
Essay on Glazer & Oppenheimer – Monochromator Magazine
We Refuse to Be Afraid
Caspar Heinemann's 'Sod All' – a review for Plinth
Caspar Heinemann's 'Sod All' – a review for Plinth
Twenty-five ‘decoy’ ducks are suspended from black ropes attached high in the vaulted ceiling of Studio Voltaire, a former Methodist church in Clapham, South London. The ducks of Dead Ducks have their backs to us. The dark black panelled wood becomes the murky waters of the pond – and the white walls of the gallery the sky. In Caspar Heinemann’s Sod All, is it we, the viewer, who are hung upside down by the work or do dead ducks fly above us? Neither option quite makes sense.
Empire State of Mind — a tribute to Gary Indiana
Empire State of Mind — a tribute to Gary Indiana
Victor Boullet's Dundee Marmalade — a review for Plinth
Victor Boullet's Dundee Marmalade — a review for Plinth
Victor Boullet is a painter of the everyday. His latest exhibition Dundee Marmalade at The Artist's Room is full of hands, cups, food, shovels and birds. There's something in the Norwegian-born, British based artist's preoccupation with the mundane that's strangely comic. These works are like smirks, wry nods, about ou
Hari Kunzru’s ‘Blue Ruin’ — a review for Frieze
Hari Kunzru’s ‘Blue Ruin’ — a review for Frieze
The writer’s seventh novel examines social divisions through relationships formed in a 1990s London art world fuelled by power and wealth
Holly Pester's The Lodgers: an Interview in Tank Magazine
Holly Pester's The Lodgers: an Interview in Tank Magazine
The Atrocity Is Present: Jonathan Glazer's "The Zone of Interest"
The Atrocity Is Present: Jonathan Glazer's "The Zone of Interest"
In his treatment of the Holocaust, the director refuses any of the devices by which stories can give relief or provide moral reassurance.
The Faces in the Back: Nicole Eisenman exhibition review
The Faces in the Back: Nicole Eisenman exhibition review
Among the paintings, video work, a collage wall, comic strips and an array of sculptures currently on display in a retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery, all the works seem to ask, what if something bad has already happened? With over three decades of materials on show, the earlier work from the 1990s is full of
Poetry Project – Summer 2023 > On Bad Diaspora Poems by Momtaza Mehri
Poetry Project – Summer 2023 > On Bad Diaspora Poems by Momtaza Mehri
Momtaza, I wanted to review your book or reply to your book or give a sense of how your book replenished me. Not just your book, but your thinking, your challenge, your friendship. It is easy to feel lost at sea in a world of imperfect poetry, between the failures of the avant-garde and the pretty p…
NOT AN AGE FOR SMALL CLAIMS: an interview with Anahid Nersessian
NOT AN AGE FOR SMALL CLAIMS: an interview with Anahid Nersessian
Not an Age for Small Claims is an interview between literary critic Anahid Nersessian and the poet Ed Luker about Nersessian's latest book Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse (Verso, 2022)
OF MYCELIA AND MEN: Nour Mobarak exhibition review
OF MYCELIA AND MEN: Nour Mobarak exhibition review
TAKE A LOOK IN THE MIRROR: Novels and Self-Improvement – Tank Magazine
TAKE A LOOK IN THE MIRROR: Novels and Self-Improvement – Tank Magazine
A thing of beauty and permanence in an age of transience. Since 1998.
Fiction | Discipline by Ed Luker - The London Magazine
Fiction | Discipline by Ed Luker - The London Magazine
Forgetting a coin for the locker, never bringing his goggles, leaving his shampoo in the showers, Harvey found comfort in the small mishaps of his swim routine. It was their lack of consequence—how these mistakes would not really make anything that much worse. He stroked the puffy scar just above his knee. Three times a week he went to the pool, without fail. Thirty minutes in, the chlorine stung his eyes. Only Harvey could put his life back together—that’s what Craig drilled into him.
Book Review: Psychic Frictions, on Donald Moss and Sharon Kivland—LARB
Book Review: Psychic Frictions, on Donald Moss and Sharon Kivland—LARB
Ed Luker reviews Sharon Kivland’s “Abécédaire” and Donald Moss’s “Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year.”
"A real damned shame of a crisis" — Two Poems for TheHythe/87Press
"A real damned shame of a crisis" — Two Poems for TheHythe/87Press
Drifting through the desert of "a real damn shame of a crisis," Ed Luker went to Mexico last April and found a way to push through all the bad feelings.
Poetry Book: OTHER LIFE (2021)
Poetry Book: OTHER LIFE (2021)
Poetry Book: HEAVY WATERS (2019)
Poetry Book: HEAVY WATERS (2019)
by Ed Luker Heavy Waters and is a mixture of poetic and prosaic workings on the sea, borders, and border violence. This edition comes with a foreword from Verity Spott, in which she writes that the book is: "[a] collection of poetry that has resolved to speak of the terrifying crossing
Fictitious Capital: Season Two of HBO's Industry review—Plinth
Fictitious Capital: Season Two of HBO's Industry review—Plinth
Book Review: Which As You Know by Philippa Snow—Jacobin
Book Review: Which As You Know by Philippa Snow—Jacobin
Book review: The Death of the Auteur (Herzog & Mann)—frieze
Book review: The Death of the Auteur (Herzog & Mann)—frieze
Art review: Tenant of Culture's Soft Acid at Camden Arts — Plinth
Art review: Tenant of Culture's Soft Acid at Camden Arts — Plinth
Book review: Otessa Moshfegh's Lapvona — Jacobin
Book review: Otessa Moshfegh's Lapvona — Jacobin
Opinion piece: Vibe Check: Why Are Artists Becoming Trend Forecasters? — Elephant Magazine
Opinion piece: Vibe Check: Why Are Artists Becoming Trend Forecasters? — Elephant Magazine
Opinion piece: on Kanye West as artist and jeen-yuhs — Plinth
Opinion piece: on Kanye West as artist and jeen-yuhs — Plinth
Book Review: Sean Thor Conroe’s Fuccboi — Jacobin
Book Review: Sean Thor Conroe’s Fuccboi — Jacobin
Art review: Mike Nelson's The Book of Spells — Plinth
Art review: Mike Nelson's The Book of Spells — Plinth
Artist interview: Danielle Dean's Amazon Rebellion — Plinth
Artist interview: Danielle Dean's Amazon Rebellion — Plinth
Commercial Work website, CV and Folio — email me for inquiries
Commercial Work website, CV and Folio — email me for inquiries
Lyric Feelings Poetry Workshops
Lyric Feelings Poetry Workshops
Suite 212 w/ Juliet Jacques and Nat Raha
Suite 212 w/ Juliet Jacques and Nat Raha
Two Poems in Berfrois
Two Poems in Berfrois
Spam Magazine Interview — in conversation with Azad Ashim Sharma
Spam Magazine Interview — in conversation with Azad Ashim Sharma
Interviewing Jasmine Gibson (2017)
Interviewing Jasmine Gibson (2017)
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