The phrase had legs. “The Flip,” capital-F: Coined by Dolly Alderton in her 2024 bestseller Good Material, it flew across the public consciousness by way of TikTok, tabloid media, and womanly word-of-mouth.

In August 2024, a young boy stood in the Museo Interattivo Leonardo da Vinci in Florence, Italy, his face awash with awe.

‘That Bitch is dead!’ Dee Gyp Blancharde, the shared Facebook account of mother and daughter, Clauddine “Dee Dee” and Gypsy-Rose Blanchard,

I am eleven. I am poised: tucked into the little green alcove in the top corner of my grandparents’ garden, sinking into the patch of soil w

Jason Allen-Paisant, a poet and professor of decolonial thought and aesthetic theory at Leeds University, released his second collection...

“All Russia has become nomadic” declared writer Zinaida Shakhovskaya, in response to the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. During the ensuing...

I have always felt a connection to Seamus Heaney, the beloved Irish poet who died exactly two weeks after my grandfather, ten years ago...

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...

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...

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...

This piece is from our archives and was originally printed in our Michaelmas 2021 edition. “There is no mysterious essence we can call a...

The connotations of the idea of ‘carnival’ are a surfeit of paradoxes: joy and resistance; pleasure and violence; striking individual...

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...

Author in her childhood yard ['baak'], photo from personal archive A patch of asphalt in a green Yerevan suburb on the right bank of...

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...

Latin; lazy summer afternoons; soft whisperings; broken glass' Do you ever daydream about how you could have prevented the burning of the...

On Saturday Night Live, a slender figure handles a guitar, silhouetted against a film screen. The lights come up, revealing Taylor...

"Marber is currently wearing his director hat..."

"Hozier disobeys and disrupts orthodoxy through its own language..."

"with every ‘revolt against mourning’, every disposable camera flash, every giddy notes app paragraph, we keep Larkin’s prophecy true..."