Dan Fox

Dan Fox is a senior editor at The Yale Review. A former editor of Frieze magazine, he is the author of Pretentiousness: Why It Matters and Limbo, and codirector of the film Other, Like Me: The Oral History of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle.
Dan Fox as a child with his nain, or grandmother, in the chicken-filled yard of Siambr Wen, near Llanrwst, North Wales, UK
Essays

What Happened When I Began to Speak Welsh

By learning my family's language, I hoped to join their conversation.
Dan Fox
December 15, 2025