Blog • 15th June 2022 Izzy Stuart: In defence of working less on your PhD PhD students are more at risk of burnout than ever. Let's discover the radical potential in being proud of procrastination
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 • 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 • 14th March 2022 Mannika Mishra: 'Tailbone', an excerpt "Rabbit skin is like water, my hands are made so gentle for it."
Blog • 10th March 2022 Cora Chalaby: 'To Flood' - Lynda Benglis' Contraband. This article considers explores the relationship between formal, material and conceptual confrontation in Lynda Benglis’ Contraband (1969).
Blog • 28th February 2022 Will Burns on Anna Mendelssohn and lyric pedagogy Hard to instrumentalise, indeed, to justify, poetry may offer a means of speaking between disciplinary identities
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 • 1st February 2022 Connor Harrison on John Fowles’ 'The Tree' A ‘forest’, though it can be imitated in words beautifully, is outside of language. ‘A forest,’ John Berger wrote, ‘is what exists between trees.’
Blog • 24th January 2022 Sam Weselowski: Excerpts from 'Triple Rainforest' Sublime sludge and murky pastoral in two new extracts from a UK-based Canadian poet
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 • 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
5th November 2021 Esmee West-Agboola: 'Part Two' "As we speak, I am cutting stitches where the fabric gathers the reckless shades of an undefined blue, blood filtered orange, demon-green, and that mindless beige that lingers like a staring child."
Blog • 25th October 2021 Roddy Howland-Jackson: 'footloose' A short, claustrophobic poem about language and the body
Blog • 18th October 2021 Inés Garcia: 'Grief Embodied' On psychoanalysis in a second language, body language, and grief