Essaying Identity
SARAH MOORHOUSE explores the role essays play in answering questions about identity.
- Jul 19
- 5 min
Never Grow Old
DUNCAN WHEELER - The Abba Avatars Party On
- Jul 16
- 8 min
Own Your Unconscious
REBECCA DILLON - Navigating the architecture of Egan's new novel
- Jul 16
- 9 min
Beeber Fever
OSCAR JELLEY - The future of the BBC in its centenary year
- Jul 16
- 8 min
Under The Shadow of Stalin
CHARLIE TAYLOR - charts the life of pianist-dissident Maria Yudina
- Jul 16
- 7 min
Mother Tongue
ISABEL TEJERA - considers grief and time in Ocean Vuongs poetry
- Jul 16
- 7 min
Time after Time
SYLEE GORE - A new poetic language of time.
- Jul 15
- 9 min
Pointless Novels
ELIZA BROWNING - Love and loss in the Ivy League.
- Jul 15
- 10 min
Patchwork Poetics
CECILY FASHAM - reviews two new collections which interweave material and memory.
- Jul 13
- 9 min
Under Construction
DOMINY GALLO - Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's forward-looking philosophy
- 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...
- Jul 13
- 10 min
Moneyball
LUKE JENSEN-JONES - exploring the uneasy relationship between fans and the clubs they love
- 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...
- Jul 13
- 8 min
Vontinalys and Blueland
MATHIAS GJESDAL HAMMER - Considering the future of the EU Army.
- Jul 13
- 9 min
A Good Day's Work
WALLERAND BAZIN & ELISABETH DARROBERS - Escaping the age of productivity.
- Jul 13
- 8 min
A Chair Outside
ELEANOR COUSINS BROWN - Ilya Kaminsky's poetic & political calls for action in Ukraine.
- Jun 26
- 9 min
Name Calling
JESSICA STEADMAN - Hanya Yanagihara's many David Binghams.
- Jun 22
- 7 min
The Shape of Faith
LEILA GREENING - Two writers confront the challenges of faith in the modern world.
- Jun 21
- 10 min
Sheer Loudness of Voice
CORA MacGREGOR - Fiction and the female philosopher.
- May 6
- 8 min
Citizens Of Vanished Nations
CHARLIE TAYLOR - Freedom and nostalgia in Europe's post-communist periphery.
- May 4
- 7 min
The Power of the Ordinary
SEAMUS PERRY - Muldoon and McCartney: Seamus Perry on the two Pauls.
- Apr 22
- 10 min
The Violence of Language
PAIGE ALLEN - Rebecca F. Kuang on her anticolonial Oxford fantasy novel.
- Apr 15
- 8 min
Rebel, Rebel
ADRIAN KREUTZ - Lamenting the loss of the student revolutionary.
- Apr 13
- 7 min
The Anomie Within Us
NICHOLAS CLARK - The shifting sands of Singaporean statecraft.
- Apr 10
- 9 min
Punk and Postvernacular
ADAM POSSENER - A new face for Yiddish.
- Apr 9
- 8 min
Heavy Weather
ROBERT MERGES - Inflation in the Anthropocene.
- Apr 5
- 6 min
The View From Here
ISABELLA CRISPINO - Is the climate crisis ushering in a new politics of the emotions?
- Apr 2
- 9 min
Joyceware
KATHERINE FRANCO – Modernism in a post-internet age: celebrating the centenary of Ulysses.
- 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.
- Jan 31
- 11 min
Good Cop/Bad Cop
CATERINA DOMENEGHINI - Two perspectives on the crisis in our democracy.
- Jan 28
- 9 min
Sing in Me, Muse
CLEMMIE READ - On the women the literary superstars left behind.
- Jan 24
- 8 min
Breathing Out
KATE GREENBERG - Genre-defying writer Maggie Nelson teaches us how to be free.
- Jan 21
- 10 min
Desire Lines
EILEEN YING - Andrea Abi-Karam rises up against 'big daddy mainframe'.
- Jan 19
- 11 min
Sun, Moon, Tooth, Bird
CLAIRE ION - Construing the self as fluid.
- Jan 10
- 9 min
Go Small or Go Home
ANNABEL JACKSON - Why is flash fiction the new vogue in literature?
- 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...
- Jan 5
- 10 min
Playing in the Light
YAGNISHSING DAWOOR - Is greater visibility always a good thing?
- Dec 31, 2021
- 10 min
Would Jesus Wear a Mask?
ANNA WINHAM - Diving down the rabbit hole of evangelical Youtube.
- 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.
- 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.
- Oct 5, 2021
- 11 min
Stewards of a New Anxiety
Why do we continue to depend on 20th century language of dystopia today?
- Oct 4, 2021
- 6 min
Pick on Someone Your Own Size
GAIA CLARK NEVOLA - Humans and the Bête Machine
- Sep 26, 2021
- 10 min
Bad Behaviour
ALEX CHASTEEN - Examining the undercurrents of female violence in Gothic fiction and domestic realism.
- Sep 9, 2021
- 5 min
Attending to the Present
ANANYA AGUSTIN MALHOTRA - Putting minds back into bodies and keeping the body in mind
- 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
- Sep 3, 2021
- 9 min
Pamphlets & Paradoxes
GIANNI DI FALCO - Squid's debut album refuses to separate the personal and the political
- Aug 28, 2021
- 5 min
Creatures of Ritual
THOMAS CLARK - A reflection on our everyday moments of sanity
- 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.
- 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.
- Aug 9, 2021
- 10 min
Call Him 'Dick'
ANNABEL ROGERS - Taylor intertwines connection and disconnection with a sense of disgust...