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    The many hats of Patrick Marber
    Ben Francis
    • Aug 16, 2021
    • 7 min

    The many hats of Patrick Marber

    "Marber is currently wearing his director hat..."
    Hozier's Heresies
    Matilda Sidel
    • Jun 21, 2021
    • 7 min

    Hozier's Heresies

    "Hozier disobeys and disrupts orthodoxy through its own language..."
    Disposable photos: transience and analogue rituals
    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..."
    ‘It’s a kind of moral coming-of-age’: Debora Harding on Memory, Trauma, and Recovery
    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..."
    意識流
    Suining Sim
    • Mar 25, 2021
    • 6 min

    意識流

    "Where can we begin but a lack of clarity?..."
    ‘Am I trying to disappear?’: Self-Fashioning in the Works of Francesca Woodman and Phoebe Stuckes
    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..."
    Living in a Fairy Tale World
    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..."
    The Traveller in Residence: Maeve Brennan's New York
    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..."
    The Validity of the Merger: Notes on Rothko in Isolation
    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.."
    Conversations in the Garden – Portraiture during a Pandemic
    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..."
    Sea Change: Quarantining With M.F.K. Fisher
    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."
    Seeing With Another’s Eyes: Slow Cinema and Marginalised Communities
    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..."
    Sunshine Posho
    Erin McFayden
    • Jan 21, 2021
    • 7 min

    Sunshine Posho

    "‘Sunshine Posho’ makes me wonder what words have to do to dissolve the stodgy, institutional comfort that Cambridge so often stands for."
    Nick Drake's Almostness
    Genie Harrison
    • Jan 17, 2021
    • 4 min

    Nick Drake's Almostness

    "To me, Nick Drake sounds like coming home, even when you’re not quite sure where home is..."
    ‘Silly Old Fairy’: The Ageing Queer Abroad in Literature
    Archie Hamerton
    • Jan 12, 2021
    • 8 min

    ‘Silly Old Fairy’: The Ageing Queer Abroad in Literature

    "...[the] age of the ‘iconic’ cisgender white gay man has reached its expiry date."
    Ladies of the Canyon: On the Poetics of Isolation
    Madeleine Pulman-Jones
    • Jan 7, 2021
    • 7 min

    Ladies of the Canyon: On the Poetics of Isolation

    "I live, now, not at home, but somewhere between two unseeable points..."
    Childhood, Adolescence and the Graduation from Youth: An Exploration into the ‘Coming-Of-Age’ Genre
    Mojola Akinyemi
    • Jan 3, 2021
    • 7 min

    Childhood, Adolescence and the Graduation from Youth: An Exploration into the ‘Coming-Of-Age’ Genre

    "Racial diversity in ‘coming-of-age’ films must extend to diversity of stories and experiences..."
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