One of our formats is 'adjacencies', in which two works — which might, at first glance, seem unrelated — are considered in relation to one another. In this one, the excellent Daisy Lafarge considers a Netflix reality TV show in relation to the work of late-c.19 French writer Alphonse Daudet.

'The coupling of boredom and intensity is constitutive of crip time, which is warped time'
The first Adjacencies, in which two works are considered in relation to one another: Daisy Lafarge on illness, Netflix show Outlast & Alphonse Daudet's In the Land of Pain
www.draughtjournal.com/article/flare

'like swallows beneath bridges, like starlings above clouds – points in time, and across landscapes.'
'Notes, Murmurations: The Notebook as Form of Rime' – Lisa Robertson on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's notebooks (& on notebooks, note-taking, a lifetime of reading)
draughtjournal.com/article/note...

’What would be a reasonable assumption? English to Korean, or Korean to English? Is translation always direction-specific?’
Don Mee Choi on poetry, translation, politics and twinning
draughtjournal.com/article/tran...

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'Day trip to the River Beane and back to London, August 2025': Studio Visit with artist Rosalind Nashashibi featuring a short text by Elena Narbutaitė and photos by GD
draughtjournal.com/article/rosa...

For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.

draughtjournal.com/article/on-b...

I don't know if you remember but some time ago I said that we'd have something to share soon.

Anyway, it's this

@draughtjournal.bsky.social

thank you!

The journal is made at the School of Arts and Humanities so it's edited by faculty members with editorial suggestions from other people at the school, students included. We definitely plan to work with alumni but for the moment the contributions are from artists, writers and other makers we admire!

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade