Self-Portrait As Othello, by Jason Allen-Paisant
Jason Allen-Paisant, a poet and professor of decolonial thought and aesthetic theory at Leeds University, released his second collection...
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Charlie Taylor
- Jan 4
- 6 min
Long and Difficult Sentences
“All Russia has become nomadic” declared writer Zinaida Shakhovskaya, in response to the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. During the ensuing...
Rachel Rees
- Dec 14, 2023
- 7 min
Derry Reimaginings: Hope and Humour in Seamus Heaney and Derry Girls
I have always felt a connection to Seamus Heaney, the beloved Irish poet who died exactly two weeks after my grandfather, ten years ago...
Nick Bartlett
- Dec 1, 2023
- 9 min
The Curious Relationship Between Loneliness and the Genealogy of True Crime
In the seven days before his death, Edgar Allan Poe went missing. He was last accounted for on the evening of 26 September 1849 in...
Minsung Son
- Jul 18, 2023
- 4 min
'Her' in the Moment of Generative AI
Upon its first release in 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her was dealing with a very specific and unusual point in time: the in-between...
Miruna Tiberiu
- Dec 29, 2022
- 10 min
‘Our generation did not come with the manual for use in the package’: Queer Romania
This essay is from our archives and was originally published in Issue 7 of our print magazine in Spring 2022. There are dreams which I...
Rosa Hollier Phelps
- Dec 20, 2022
- 8 min
The Celluloid of Memory : Łódź, Wajda and Me
This piece is from our archives and was originally printed in our Michaelmas 2021 edition. “There is no mysterious essence we can call a...
Hari Collins
- Dec 13, 2022
- 4 min
Swallow Sings Calypso: Voices of Freedom
The connotations of the idea of ‘carnival’ are a surfeit of paradoxes: joy and resistance; pleasure and violence; striking individual...
Macsen Brown
- Dec 8, 2022
- 3 min
The Man Who Wouldn’t Be Murdered is Deadly Good : a Retrospective Review
5 STARS The Man Who Wouldn’t Be Murdered, by Lily Blundell, is based on the true story of Michael Malloy (Jude Ashcroft), an alcoholic in...
Naneh V Hovhannisyan
- Nov 12, 2022
- 6 min
My Yerevan
Author in her childhood yard ['baak'], photo from personal archive A patch of asphalt in a green Yerevan suburb on the right bank of...
Joshua Clayton
- Nov 6, 2022
- 7 min
Aria Aber’s Splintered I
Never such calm again. This was the phrase I thought to myself while reading most of the final third or so of Aria Aber’s debut...
Bella Harter
- Oct 10, 2022
- 8 min
A Wary Glance into the World of Dark Academia
Latin; lazy summer afternoons; soft whisperings; broken glass' Do you ever daydream about how you could have prevented the burning of the...
Scarlett Clemmow
- Sep 22, 2022
- 6 min
Who Was There ? Taylor Swift and Performing the Gendered Self
On Saturday Night Live, a slender figure handles a guitar, silhouetted against a film screen. The lights come up, revealing Taylor...
Ben Francis
- Aug 16, 2021
- 7 min
The many hats of Patrick Marber
"Marber is currently wearing his director hat..."
Matilda Sidel
- Jun 21, 2021
- 7 min
Hozier's Heresies
"Hozier disobeys and disrupts orthodoxy through its own language..."
Betty Townley
- May 20, 2021
- 5 min
Disposable photos: transience and analogue rituals
"with every ‘revolt against mourning’, every disposable camera flash, every giddy notes app paragraph, we keep Larkin’s prophecy true..."
Helen Turner-Smyth
- May 1, 2021
- 7 min
‘It’s a kind of moral coming-of-age’: Debora Harding on Memory, Trauma, and Recovery
"Debora Harding’s writing operates with the reader in mind..."
Suining Sim
- Mar 25, 2021
- 6 min
意識流
"Where can we begin but a lack of clarity?..."
Francesca Weekes
- Mar 23, 2021
- 8 min
‘Am I trying to disappear?’: Self-Fashioning in the Works of Francesca Woodman and Phoebe Stuckes
"A 1940s movie star glows against a black background. Her hair is loose around her shoulders but still holds the curve of..."
Karolina Filova
- Mar 6, 2021
- 6 min
Living in a Fairy Tale World
"At first, the Hansel and Gretel of my childhood stay firmly on the beaten track..."
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