Anwen Crawford

Courtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain's wife, she was derided as an opportunistic groupie; as his widow, she is pitied and scorned, as the madwoman in rock's attic. Yet Hole's second album, Live Through This,...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize No Document is an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and expansive, Anwen Crawford's book-length essay explores loss in many forms: disappeared artworks, effaced histories, abandoned futures. From...