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Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s <em>The Waves</em> Means to Him

Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Means to Him

“It is the first novel he has ever read that makes him consider seriously the form of a human life.”

By Brian Dillon | September 8, 2026

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

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

Brian Dillon Considers the Restless Geometry of Blind Spots

By Brian Dillon | April 25, 2023

Brian Dillon on the Sentences of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Brian Dillon on the Sentences of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

In Praise of an Artist and Writer Taken Too Soon

By Brian Dillon | September 28, 2020

Why Literature Loves Lists

Why Literature Loves Lists

From Rabelais to Didion, an Incomplete List of Listmakers

By Brian Dillon | September 14, 2018

On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf

On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf

A Close Reading of the Opening Lines to an Iconic Essay, 'On Being Ill'

By Brian Dillon | June 21, 2017

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