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‘Our generation did not come with the manual for use in the package’: Queer Romania
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...
Miruna Tiberiu
Dec 29, 202210 min read


The Celluloid of Memory : Łódź, Wajda and Me
This piece is from our archives and was originally printed in our Michaelmas 2021 edition. “There is no mysterious essence we can call a...
Rosa Hollier Phelps
Dec 20, 20228 min read


A Wary Glance into the World of Dark Academia
Latin; lazy summer afternoons; soft whisperings; broken glass' Do you ever daydream about how you could have prevented the burning of the...
Bella Harter
Oct 10, 20228 min read


‘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


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


Mrs Dalloway's Best Nightmare
"I am Hostess, I am Divine Feminine
for just One night. The clock carves out its cold rhythm, the evening air reeks of it..."
Juliette Odolant
Jan 27, 20212 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


Still Life
"In the room they come to go, looking
like cave paintings
gone hunting for the Leonardo..."
Emily Swettenham
Jan 13, 20210 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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