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Malin Hay
Mar 3, 20217 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..."


Ben Philipps
Feb 11, 20216 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.."

Nick Maini
Feb 3, 202111 min read
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, 20217 min read
Sea Change: Quarantining With M.F.K. Fisher
"...food is for Fisher a kind of master key to human experience."

Joe Turrell
Jan 25, 202111 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..."


Erin McFayden
Jan 21, 20217 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."


Genie Harrison
Jan 17, 20214 min read
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, 20218 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."


Madeleine Pulman-Jones
Jan 7, 20217 min read
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, 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..."
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