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    Never Grow Old
    • Jul 19
    • 5 min

    Never Grow Old

    DUNCAN WHEELER - The Abba Avatars Party On
    Own Your Unconscious
    • Jul 16
    • 8 min

    Own Your Unconscious

    REBECCA DILLON - Navigating the architecture of Egan's new novel
    Beeber Fever
    • Jul 16
    • 9 min

    Beeber Fever

    OSCAR JELLEY - The future of the BBC in its centenary year
    Under The Shadow of Stalin
    • Jul 16
    • 8 min

    Under The Shadow of Stalin

    CHARLIE TAYLOR - charts the life of pianist-dissident Maria Yudina
    Mother Tongue
    • Jul 16
    • 7 min

    Mother Tongue

    ISABEL TEJERA - considers grief and time in Ocean Vuongs poetry
    Time after Time
    • Jul 16
    • 7 min

    Time after Time

    SYLEE GORE - A new poetic language of time.
    Pointless Novels
    • Jul 15
    • 9 min

    Pointless Novels

    ELIZA BROWNING - Love and loss in the Ivy League.
    Patchwork Poetics
    • Jul 15
    • 10 min

    Patchwork Poetics

    CECILY FASHAM - reviews two new collections which interweave material and memory.
    Under Construction
    • Jul 13
    • 9 min

    Under Construction

    DOMINY GALLO - Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's forward-looking philosophy
    When Peace is Not Enough
    • Jul 13
    • 9 min

    When Peace is Not Enough

    By Alejandro Posada Téllez and Mario Carvajal Cabal Tensions are running high in Colombia six years after the signature of the historic...
    Moneyball
    • Jul 13
    • 10 min

    Moneyball

    LUKE JENSEN-JONES - exploring the uneasy relationship between fans and the clubs they love
    The Last Train from Kyiv
    • Jul 13
    • 4 min

    The Last Train from Kyiv

    By Ada Wordsworth I have only cried at the station once, but I can’t remember which story broke me. Maybe it was the old woman with...
    Vontinalys and Blueland
    • Jul 13
    • 8 min

    Vontinalys and Blueland

    MATHIAS GJESDAL HAMMER - Considering the future of the EU Army.
    A Good Day's Work
    • Jul 13
    • 9 min

    A Good Day's Work

    WALLERAND BAZIN & ELISABETH DARROBERS - Escaping the age of productivity.
    A Chair Outside
    • Jul 13
    • 8 min

    A Chair Outside

    ELEANOR COUSINS BROWN - Ilya Kaminsky's poetic & political calls for action in Ukraine.
    Name Calling
    • Jun 26
    • 9 min

    Name Calling

    JESSICA STEADMAN - Hanya Yanagihara's many David Binghams.
    The Shape of Faith
    • Jun 22
    • 7 min

    The Shape of Faith

    LEILA GREENING - Two writers confront the challenges of faith in the modern world.
    Sheer Loudness of Voice
    • Jun 21
    • 10 min

    Sheer Loudness of Voice

    CORA MacGREGOR - Fiction and the female philosopher.
    Citizens Of Vanished Nations
    • May 6
    • 8 min

    Citizens Of Vanished Nations

    CHARLIE TAYLOR - Freedom and nostalgia in Europe's post-communist periphery.
    The Power of the Ordinary
    • May 4
    • 7 min

    The Power of the Ordinary

    SEAMUS PERRY - Muldoon and McCartney: Seamus Perry on the two Pauls.
    The Violence of Language
    • Apr 22
    • 10 min

    The Violence of Language

    PAIGE ALLEN - Rebecca F. Kuang on her anticolonial Oxford fantasy novel.
    Rebel, Rebel
    • Apr 15
    • 8 min

    Rebel, Rebel

    ADRIAN KREUTZ - Lamenting the loss of the student revolutionary.
    The Anomie Within Us
    • Apr 13
    • 7 min

    The Anomie Within Us

    NICHOLAS CLARK - The shifting sands of Singaporean statecraft.
    Punk and Postvernacular
    • Apr 10
    • 9 min

    Punk and Postvernacular

    ADAM POSSENER - A new face for Yiddish.
    Heavy Weather
    • Apr 9
    • 8 min

    Heavy Weather

    ROBERT MERGES - Inflation in the Anthropocene.
    The View From Here
    • Apr 5
    • 6 min

    The View From Here

    ISABELLA CRISPINO - Is the climate crisis ushering in a new politics of the emotions?
    Joyceware
    • Apr 2
    • 9 min

    Joyceware

    KATHERINE FRANCO – Modernism in a post-internet age: celebrating the centenary of Ulysses.
    In Search of Lost Time
    • Mar 28
    • 10 min

    In Search of Lost Time

    LIAM JOHNSTON – Authentic accounts of class difference often require a complex effort to remember what has been deliberately left behind.
    Good Cop/Bad Cop
    • Jan 31
    • 11 min

    Good Cop/Bad Cop

    CATERINA DOMENEGHINI - Two perspectives on the crisis in our democracy.
    Sing in Me, Muse
    • Jan 28
    • 9 min

    Sing in Me, Muse

    CLEMMIE READ - On the women the literary superstars left behind.
    Breathing Out
    • Jan 24
    • 8 min

    Breathing Out

    KATE GREENBERG - Genre-defying writer Maggie Nelson teaches us how to be free.
    Desire Lines
    • Jan 21
    • 10 min

    Desire Lines

    EILEEN YING - Andrea Abi-Karam rises up against 'big daddy mainframe'.
    Sun, Moon, Tooth, Bird
    • Jan 19
    • 11 min

    Sun, Moon, Tooth, Bird

    CLAIRE ION - Construing the self as fluid.
    Go Small or Go Home
    • Jan 10
    • 9 min

    Go Small or Go Home

    ANNABEL JACKSON - Why is flash fiction the new vogue in literature?
    True Patriots All
    • Jan 7
    • 9 min

    True Patriots All

    by Helen Dallas Our Country's Good Timberlake Wertenbaker, 1988 The Playmaker Thomas Keneally, Hodder & Stoughton, 1987 In 1789, convicts...
    Playing in the Light
    • Jan 5
    • 10 min

    Playing in the Light

    YAGNISHSING DAWOOR - Is greater visibility always a good thing?
    Would Jesus Wear a Mask?
    • Dec 31, 2021
    • 10 min

    Would Jesus Wear a Mask?

    ANNA WINHAM - Diving down the rabbit hole of evangelical Youtube.
    Women's Work
    • Dec 22, 2021
    • 11 min

    Women's Work

    EMILY DYSON - If liberal and radical feminists were right that men won't save us, the state and market will not save us either.
    Are You Feeling Uncomfortable Yet?
    • Dec 22, 2021
    • 9 min

    Are You Feeling Uncomfortable Yet?

    ELEANOR HALLESY - The Right to Sex wants to inhabit the ‘uncomfortable, unsafe politics’ of the truly inclusionary.
    Stewards of a New Anxiety
    • Oct 5, 2021
    • 11 min

    Stewards of a New Anxiety

    Why do we continue to depend on 20th century language of dystopia today?
    Pick on Someone Your Own Size
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 6 min

    Pick on Someone Your Own Size

    GAIA CLARK NEVOLA - Humans and the Bête Machine
    Bad Behaviour
    • Sep 26, 2021
    • 10 min

    Bad Behaviour

    ALEX CHASTEEN - Examining the undercurrents of female violence in Gothic fiction and domestic realism.
    Attending to the Present
    • Sep 9, 2021
    • 5 min

    Attending to the Present

    ANANYA AGUSTIN MALHOTRA - Putting minds back into bodies and keeping the body in mind
    Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
    • Sep 8, 2021
    • 7 min

    Women's Prize for Fiction 2021

    Our writers review this year's novels shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
    Pamphlets & Paradoxes
    • Sep 3, 2021
    • 9 min

    Pamphlets & Paradoxes

    GIANNI DI FALCO - Squid's debut album refuses to separate the personal and the political
    Creatures of Ritual
    • Aug 28, 2021
    • 5 min

    Creatures of Ritual

    THOMAS CLARK - A reflection on our everyday moments of sanity
    Mending the Split
    • Aug 20, 2021
    • 9 min

    Mending the Split

    RITA MAY - Angel's latest book explores the limits of sexual consent and what it means for sex to be 'good' today.
    Lessons in Compromise
    • Aug 14, 2021
    • 8 min

    Lessons in Compromise

    MICHAEL ROWAND - Yaffa’s new study of Russia’s cyberwarfare finds trade-offs in Putin’s political regime.
    Call Him 'Dick'
    • Aug 9, 2021
    • 10 min

    Call Him 'Dick'

    ANNABEL ROGERS - Taylor intertwines connection and disconnection with a sense of disgust...
    What We Aren('t)
    • Aug 9, 2021
    • 11 min

    What We Aren('t)

    JULES DESAI - Negarestani's philosophy of negative portraiture sheds light on the Nobel Prize-Winner Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel.
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