Theodosia Henney

Dodie Bellamy’s collection of essays, When the Sick Rule the World, immediately hooks the reader with a disarmingly funny and libidinous reading of a scene from a classic animated film. The effect is one of being grabbed by the wrist and dragged, willingly, into a series of dark and deeply felt vignettes that address with lyrical precision such topics as the death of the author’s mother, Kathy Acker’s abandoned possessions, the cult of the guru, and the cannibalization of San Francisco by the tech industry. By the end of the book, Bellamy has managed to create, by virtue of colliding […]