Who Was There ? Taylor Swift and Performing the Gendered Self
By Scarlett Clemmow Illustrations by Danielle Jump On Saturday Night Live, a slender figure handles a guitar, silhouetted against a film...
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..."
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."
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..."
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."
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..."
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..."