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Miraya McCoy Palmer
Jan 28, 20246 min read
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...
Charlie Taylor
Jan 4, 20246 min read
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, 20237 min read
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, 20239 min read
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, 20234 min read
'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, 202210 min read
‘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, 20228 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20228 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20217 min read
The many hats of Patrick Marber
"Marber is currently wearing his director hat..."
Matilda Sidel
Jun 21, 20217 min read
Hozier's Heresies
"Hozier disobeys and disrupts orthodoxy through its own language..."
Betty Townley
May 20, 20215 min read
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, 20217 min read
‘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, 20216 min read
意識流
"Where can we begin but a lack of clarity?..."
Francesca Weekes
Mar 23, 20218 min read
‘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, 20216 min read
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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