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The Trial of Eve

MAYA WILSON AUTZEN interrogates the aetiology of the fallen woman.    The Book of Genesis provides not only the origin story of the Christian world..

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A Banana in Paris

A poem by ANNA DANG.   I.   ‘All Passports’, says the sign in front of me, I push mine sideways through the hole, like..

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Review: songs / instrumentals

ALEX HEWITT reviews Adrianne Lenker’s recent releases, songs and instrumentals. 2019 was a banner year for Adrianne Lenker’s band, Big Thief. They released two of..

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Review: Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar

ANNA DANG reviews American writer Avni Doshi’s novel, Burnt Sugar, which has been shortlisted for this year’s Booker prize.    There’s nothing quite like a..

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Review: Artemisia at the National Gallery 

  TEREZA BLAHOVA reviews Artemisia at the National Gallery, and considers the importance of representing narratives that have typically been excluded from art history.  trigger..

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Review: Toyin Ojih Odutola at the Barbican

MAYA SALL reviews Toyin Ojih Odutola’s exhibition A Countervailing Theory and considers the often inaccessible nature of exhibition spaces.   When transitioning from the light of..

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Review: Leopoldstadt

  ASIA CHOUDHRY examines the importance of remembrance and memory in Sir Thomas Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt   The curtain rises, and one can hear a barely..
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Review: ‘Unfinished Business’ at the British Library

FRANCESCA KURLANSKY reviews Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights at the British Library.    ‘Girls are powerful’    These are the first words you..
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Review: Shiva Baby

RACH LEONG reviews the anxiety-inducing dark comedy Shiva Baby. ‘A Jewish girl, her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend walk into a funeral service’ has to..
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Review: Michael Clark at the Barbican

JEAN WATT reviews Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer at the Barbican and contemplates the emotive potential of physicality.  I had never heard of Michael Clark until..
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The World Exists To Be Put On A Postcard

GEORGIA GOOD explores the value and purpose of postcards, and how they relate to the world.  This objet d’art, pictured below, is a postcard. By..
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Burgergate and the Fall of Groupie Culture

PERA CUMUR discusses the downfall of Californian label Burger Records, and the distorted legacy of groupie culture.  In July 2020, the emblematic Californian label and..
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Interview: Everyone’s Invited

Everyone’s Invited is a social movement committed to tackling rape culture through conversation, education and support. What began as a mere Instagram story soon blossomed..
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Review: Priya Ahluwalia’s Jalebi

VINNY SANDHU revisits Priya Ahluwalia’s Jalebi, a collection of photographs documenting the lives of residents in Southall which reflect on the importance of this area..
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Rina Sawayama: Archaic Rules on Identity and Nationality

VINNY SANDHU discusses why Rina Sawayama should get the recognition she deserves. Rina Sawayama made headlines this summer when a nationality clause in the Mercury..
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To All the Zygotes I’ve Lost Before

A poem by LAURA DIGNUM-SMITH.   To all the zygotes I’ve lost before Dear womb-lice, With your eggs and your sperms You think you made..
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Why Libraries are More Important than Ever

IQRA AHMAD defends the importance of public libraries, particularly in light of the Coronavirus pandemic.   Earlier this month, Walsall’s council leader Mike Bird weighed..
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Review: Sin at the National Gallery 

MARISA BECIROVIC reviews Sin at the National Gallery, reflecting on how our contemporary conception of sin has strayed from its historical underpinnings.    Wrongdoings, misdeeds..
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Review: ‘Looking for Bloomsbury’s Lost Book Shops’ at the Bloomsbury Festival

ADLEE HESHMAT reviews an online discussion about the lost bookshops of Bloomsbury, which was part of the 2020 Bloomsbury Festival’s literary programme.    Beyond the..
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The Biedermeier, Spitzweg and the Satirical

EMMA GABOR discusses the work of eighteenth-century painter Carl Spitzweg, linking the emergence of the Biedermeier period in Germany to the burgeoning of his artistic..
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Review: Undertale

ASIA CHOUDHRY reviews the 2015 video game Undertale.  I warily approach the sunflower, and as it beams at me I feel at ease. As I..
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