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Brian Dillon

Brian Dillon
Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Essayism, The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror, I Am Sitting in a Room, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for nonfiction. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Bookforum, frieze, and Artforum. He is the UK editor of Cabinet magazine and teaches creative writing at Queen Mary University of London.


“A Bright Stellate Object, a Small Angled Sphere.” On Migraines and Scotoma

Brian Dillon Considers the Restless Geometry of Blind Spots
April 25, 2023  By Brian Dillon
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Brian Dillon on the Sentences of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

In Praise of an Artist and Writer Taken Too Soon
September 28, 2020  By Brian Dillon
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Why Literature Loves Lists

From Rabelais to Didion, an Incomplete List of Listmakers
September 14, 2018  By Brian Dillon
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On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf

A Close Reading of the Opening Lines to an Iconic Essay, 'On Being Ill'
June 21, 2017  By Brian Dillon
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