Rosie Clarke

Rosie Clarke is a London-based writer, critic, and editor, and works for the translation journal Asymptote. Her work has been published in the Times Literary Supplement, The London Magazine, Music & Literature, The White Review, 3:AM Magazine, and more.


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The Aleph in the Closet

In Jorge Luis Borges’s story “The Aleph,” the eponymous construct is the “only place on earth where all places are seen from every angle, each standing clear, without any confusion or blending”; gazing into it, one would, remarkably, see the universe from all angles simultaneously. The story’s protagonist—a fictionalized version of its author—is mourning the […]