A flurry of fans eagerly waits in anticipation for the next periodical from Lady Whistledown, the omniscient narrator in Netflix’s latest period drama, Bridgerton. For admirers of Jane Austen, Bridgerton arrived as a […]
Category: Arts & Culture
Tragedy On Canvas: A Visual Guide to Shakespeare’s Women in 19th Century Art
by Madeline Brace Content Warning: This article, the art and plays it concerns and the articles linked below feature potentially distressing subject matter including suicide, mental illness, forced marriage and […]
Bizarre Desires Behind the Glass: The Contemporary Come-back of Wunderkammers
Written by Fruzsina Vida From 16th century cabinets of curiosities to a riveting app to fight off the pandemic monotony, private collections of wonders have found their audience through centuries […]
In Review: Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington
Image Credit: Amazon by James Stewart It seems to be a sad fact of contemporary fiction that the message or politics of a book comes secondary to its actual artistic […]
Review: Phantom Thread (2018)
“You are not cursed, you are loved by me.” What begins as an innocent story of love between a meticulous, mildly unsettling dressmaker and a wilful waitress takes an eerie […]
In Review: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
By Isabelle Cardy 1Q84 is captivated by the entwined journeys of its two protagonists, Tengo and Aoname. In the shifting world of Japan in 1984, Tengo, taking on a dubious […]
The Impact on Art of Pandemics Past: A Visual Guide
By Madeline Brace Content Warning: This article, the art it concerns and the articles linked below, feature potentially distressing subject matter including pandemics, terminal illness and bereavement. It has become […]
The Importance of LGBT+ Representation in TV and Film
By Jared White The Importance of LGBT+ Representation in TV and Film. I recently finished watching It’s A Sin, Channel 4’s new five-episode series that tells the story of a […]
Review: Saint Maud (2020)
British psychological horror film Saint Maud has been a hit with audiences since it came out in the UK in October and now it’s finally available to watch from the […]
Everything Wrong With the ‘Everything Wrong With’ Genre
With the increasing popularity of video essay YouTube channels, people are becoming more critical about what they’re watching. There’s nothing wrong with that in itself. Most of the time these […]