Women in the Arts Over Time
The tagline of this year’s International Women’s Day was #choosetochallenge. The tag encourages people to tackle gender-based inequality on a...
Arts and Culture
Brideshead revisited: Classic literature and the power of LGBTQ+
Most of us are likely tired of hearing how the pandemic of the past year has been a historic event...
The Tenuous Art of iPhone Notes Poetry
Delving into iPhone Notes Poetry is a bit like going down a rabbit hole littered with persistent f*ck boy word...
John Keats: Still Relevant 200 Years Later?
John Keats was one of the key figures within the second wave of romantic poets – alongside the likes of...
Literary Calendar: Books to Look Forward to in 2021
Emma Rivers introduces twelve of the best books to look forward to in 2021, including powerful poetry, short story collections...
‘News of the World’ review: Woody gets a live-action treatment
News of the World tells the story of Captain Kidd (Tom Hanks) in middle America, post-civil war, who plods between small...
A Glimpse into the Guardian’s Online Book Club
Many of us have discovered or rediscovered a love for reading over the multiple lockdowns. We’ve escaped to the fantasy...
Reading David Foster Wallace in Lockdown: How Infinite Jest Predicted our Over-consumption of Entertainment
Few writers have been venerated as the spokesperson for their respective generation, and David Foster Wallace is one of those...
‘Penguin Bloom’ review: An incredibly authentic and realistic view of disabled life.
Emma Rivers reviews Penguin Bloom, the film based on the true story of Sam Bloom as she learns to understand...
Would a ‘Harry Potter’ TV series be magical?
I groaned when I first read the online headline speculating that Harry Potter may be getting a television reboot but...
