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‘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..."
Helen Turner-Smyth
May 1, 20217 min read


意識流
"Where can we begin but a lack of clarity?..."
Suining Sim
Mar 25, 20216 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..."
Francesca Weekes
Mar 23, 20218 min read


Living in a Fairy Tale World
"At first, the Hansel and Gretel of my childhood stay firmly on the beaten track..."
Karolina Filova
Mar 6, 20216 min read


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..."
Malin Hay
Mar 3, 20217 min read


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.."
Ben Philipps
Feb 11, 20216 min read


Conversations in the Garden – Portraiture during a Pandemic
"Oma sits, leaning forward, hands clasped over the head of her walking-stick..."
Nick Maini
Feb 3, 202111 min read


Sea Change: Quarantining With M.F.K. Fisher
"...food is for Fisher a kind of master key to human experience."
Maral Attar-Zadeh
Feb 1, 20217 min read


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..."
Joe Turrell
Jan 25, 202111 min read


Sunshine Posho
"‘Sunshine Posho’ makes me wonder what words have to do to dissolve the stodgy, institutional comfort that Cambridge so often stands for."
Erin McFayden
Jan 21, 20217 min read


Nick Drake's Almostness
"To me, Nick Drake sounds like coming home, even when you’re not quite sure where home is..."
Genie Harrison
Jan 17, 20214 min read


‘Silly Old Fairy’: The Ageing Queer Abroad in Literature
"...[the] age of the ‘iconic’ cisgender white gay man has reached its expiry date."
Archie Hamerton
Jan 12, 20218 min read


Ladies of the Canyon: On the Poetics of Isolation
"I live, now, not at home, but somewhere between two unseeable points..."
Madeleine Pulman-Jones
Jan 7, 20217 min read


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..."
Mojola Akinyemi
Jan 3, 20217 min read
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