Brian Dillon is the UK editor of Cabinet magazine and teaches creative writing at Queen Mary University of London. His books include Essayism, The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for nonfiction.
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Charlotte Brontë found in her illnesses, real and imaginary, an escape from familial and social duties and the perfect conditions for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his body was being colonized and transformed at the hand of... SEE MORE