Blog • 6th May 2022

Morgan Jones: Reproductive dystopias and the world after Roe v. Wade

For a glimpse of what happens next, don't read Margaret Atwood—read Sally Rooney

Blog • 4th May 2022

James Goodwin: 'STAR BRIGHT ICE'

New poetry from James Goodwin

Blog • 5th April 2022

Will Ballantyne-Reid on Derek Jarman's THE GARDEN (1990)

Jarman's film echoes and embodies the breakdown of boundaries, bodies, and identities so intrinsic to the impact of the HIV-AIDs crisis

Blog • 21st February 2022

Pema Monaghan: 'bathing zine'

"I liked the beach best on still summer evenings, the water barely rippling...to be held on the surface of the water, buoyed up by the salt"

Blog • 21st March 2022

Tom Crompton: Poems

New poetry from Tom Crompton

Blog • 16th February 2022

Morgan Jones: 'Kind of cool, but not really' - Fascism in Succession

HBO's satire treats fascism with a knowing wink. But when you're so far in on the joke, are you really joking at all?

Blog • 8th February 2022

Ella Bucknall: Writing memoir in comic-strip format

Combining biography, visual art, literary history, and narrative non-fiction, Ella Bucknall traverses two centuries in the history of a family pub

Blog • 29th November 2021

Joshua Mcloughlin: Sidney's 'Stuff' - Poetry, humanism and masturbation

An indecent essay on self-love, 'stuffe,' and the raw materials of Renaissance poetry

Blog • 25th November 2021

Tash Law: Using fashion off-cuts to make new art

Inspired by film and sculpture, Milan-based fashion designer Tash Law uses textile scraps to make eye-popping artworks

Blog • 22nd November 2021

Fintan Calpin: Two Poems

Two new poems from our last print issue: 'Gnomon' and 'Wear and Tear'

Blog • 5th November 2021

'Solidarity Over Sympathy': Catherine Kelly on the UCU Strike

By withdrawing support for the strike, UCL and KCL student unions have shown a troubling misunderstanding of the severity of the crisis in higher education

Blog • 11th October 2021

Photography by Ajamu X

Portraits unapologetically celebrating black queer bodies, erotic senses, desire, and pleasure as activism

Blog • 5th October 2021

'Something to do with capitalism': Sally Rooney and Irish economic history

Will Fleming on the post-crash Ireland into which Rooney's protagonists are pitched