Claire Bidwell
Articles illustrated by Claire Bidwell:
Circle Game
in Issue 12 | Home and Pain (Jan 2012)bring-a-stranger parties - reporting a dream - her sexy voice - « Are you my special friend? » - a platonic family - so slanted were the floors - communal food - landsmanschaften - that cat with his backpack
Good Morning Heartache
in Issue 8 | Hunger (Sep 2011)that miserable truck - her eyes half-closed and her face lifted up to the sky - « Why was I born to love you? » - a sad, starving heart - love a wretch, and be left wanting - two different sorts of cravings - Holiday's nightmarish journey - why make it such a mellow pleasure? - ruthless awareness of our ordinary lives
Slow Mood Movement
in Issue 5 | Realism (Jun 2011)a sad community organizer - a spectacle of certainty and enthusiasm - fix it in the name of greater productivity - make the dull feel interesting again - generosity and austerity - pathetic pride - sad, anxious, lost girlfriends - reclaiming mooding
The Infamy of Agrippina
in Issue 4 | The Progress of Memory (May 2011)some offenses are worse than capital - damnatio memoriae - « Let him kill me—provided he becomes emperor! » - a fascinating piece of gossip - a sex life subordinated to a political life - only a fear of posterity could have kept her vice in check - a poorly enacted shipwreck - « Strike here! »
Frostbite
in Issue 3 | Nature and Its Enemies (Apr 2011)boots stiff with the cold - mottled white and purple - « we should probably hike out tonight » - rewarming - the bedpan - « there’s no need to be brave » - « freeze in January, amputate in July »