Susan Finlay is a writer and artist. Her most recent book is the anti-memoir The Lives of the Artist (2023). She lives in Berlin.
Recent debut novels by Rachel Cattle, Sinéad Gleeson, and Hannah Regel deal with the realities of women making a living making work.
In Berlin, a documentary exhibition of the Viennese Actionist underscores the shock of her meta-media performances fifty years ago and their interim saturation of our visual language.