Wednesday 26 November 2025, 6–8pm
Thomas Dane Gallery
11 Duke Street, St James’s
London SW1 6BN
All welcome, no RSVP necessary.

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha & Jimmy Robert – distinguish the limit from the edge book launch at Thomas Dane Gallery in London
Reading by Jacob Korczynski and Jimmy Robert, 7pm

distinguish the limit from the edge is an intergenerational dialogue between Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Jimmy Robert. Their connection emerges through the intersection of text and image between selected work from Cha’s oeuvre and Robert’s practice that share the formal strategies of ‘the fold.’

Commissioned by Book Works, edited by Jacob Korczynski and designed by Wolfe Hall. Published in association with Participant Inc. with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Korea Arts Management Services, after the exhibition:

flipping through pages keeping a record of time: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha & Jimmy Robert, curated by Jacob Korczynski at Participant Inc., 6 September–3 November 2024, supported by a Fall 2020 Curatorial Research Fellowship from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

December 9 2025, 6–9.30pm
Burley Fisher, 400 Kingsland Road, London E8 4AA
Free, RSVP here.

Come and join us at Burley Fisher Books on 9 December to celebrate the launch of Yoel Noorali’s debut, The Kingdom.

In a surreal and hilarious mix of fiction and autobiography, The Kingdom follows a host of misfits and losers struggling to devote themselves to the religion of the 21st century: work. Set predominantly within the admin office of an NHS liver wing, the collection chronicles the strange behaviours of men cornered by a bureaucracy that lets indignity run rampant.

Yoel Noorali is a former NHS administrator and writer of fiction and non-fiction living in London. His short stories have appeared in Back Patio, Dispatches, The Fence, Neutral Spaces, and Somesuch, and his essays in Esquire, The Financial Times, The Observer and The Spectator.

Kieran Morris is The Fence‘s managing editor, co-author of Core, a correspondent for Pablo Torre Finds Out (The Athletic/Meadowlark Media), and a shortlisted feature writer for the Guardian, GQ, and FT Magazine.

Our Book of the Month for November, with 30% off all month, is Aliasing by Mara Coson. The final book in the Semina series, edited by Stewart Home, it was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize in 2020.

In 1950, Fritz Lang came to the capital en route to Turagsoy to shoot a war film that he later considered to be the worst movie he ever made. He came to the radio station KZRM because he was listening to the radio while on set and he was amazed at the sound bites they got, from everyone from Chiang Kai Shek to Joseph Stalin. He went to KZRM and found out that a man named Koko Trinidad had been impersonating them: The easiest way to control the population is to carry out acts of terror!

An alias is an assumed identity.

In Aliasing the narration of fiction shifts like the weave of a binakul blanket, and the reader is confronted by a procession of simulacra that might be misunderstood as an alternative history of the Philippines. There are no falsehoods here since representation precedes and determines the real. The northern whirlpool weave that provides the novel with its title has been used to confuse evil spirits and protect its wearer while asleep. Almost traditional stories are woven into a post-history covering everyone from Macabebe Marie (the Mata Hari of Manila) to the Catholic mystic Emma de Guzman (known to followers as the Mother of Love, Peace and Joy). Reflecting the hybrid nature of our contemporary world, Aliasing reconfigures our understanding of who we are as a twice-told tall tale from the South.

Mara Coson is a writer and editor from Manila, Philippines and the publisher of Exploding Galaxies, a press which reissues lost classics of Phillipine Literature.