Author: Roscoe Marchall

  • Gentle Intervention: Zadie Smith’s Dead and Alive

    Artwork by Josse Mansilla (2026) Cambridge weekly essays are miserable. Every Tuesday — my dedicated ‘writing day’ — I wake to the frightful sight of six days’ worth of reading, knowing that within the next few hours all this careful work will be bent and slung into the shape of fifteen-hundred words. It’s a process of…