‘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...
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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..."
Malin Hay
- Mar 3, 2021
- 7 min
The Traveller in Residence: Maeve Brennan's New York
"An Irishwoman, two Americans, and five French teenagers walk into a bar, sit at separate tables, eat, and leave..."
Ben Philipps
- Feb 11, 2021
- 6 min
The Validity of the Merger: Notes on Rothko in Isolation
"Before he began to create the large-scale geometric ‘colour fields’ for which he’s best known, Mark Rothko tried out a variety of styles.."
Nick Maini
- Feb 3, 2021
- 11 min
Conversations in the Garden – Portraiture during a Pandemic
"Oma sits, leaning forward, hands clasped over the head of her walking-stick..."
Maral Attar-Zadeh
- Feb 1, 2021
- 7 min
Sea Change: Quarantining With M.F.K. Fisher
"...food is for Fisher a kind of master key to human experience."
Joe Turrell
- Jan 25, 2021
- 11 min
Seeing With Another’s Eyes: Slow Cinema and Marginalised Communities
"Slow cinema grants us the ability to experience time as the subjects of the films themselves experience it..."
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