Ava Max’s debut album has been a long time coming. Chloé Agar reviews.
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Review: Declan McKenna’s Zeros
Sarah Lewis reviews Declan McKenna’s ‘highly listenable, and yet thought-provoking’ new album Zeros.
Plays That Made Me: Girl from the North Country
In the second Plays That Made Me instalment, Mimi Pattinson remembers Connor McPherson’s Girl from the North Country and its exploration of life, loss and love through Bob Dylan’s music and poetry.
Charlie Kaufman’s ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’
Gaia Clark Nevola reviews the new Charlie Kaufman film ‘I’m thinking of ending things’.
Behind the Scenes with the Raise Your Voice Theater Collective
Perhaps you were lucky enough to catch RENT! in Hilary 2019, the very first musical by the St Catz theatre society. Well, the cast is back, this time through the new endeavour Raise Your Voice Theater Collective, a virtual musical theater fundraiser in support of Color of Change and UK Black Pride. I talk to Read More…
After the End of the World, Music Remains
Review: Space is the Place, Sun Ra.
The Kissing Booth 2: The Let-Down We All Expected
I never intended to sit down and watch The Kissing Booth 2– it just kind of happened. I saw it on the Netflix homepage, and seeing as I hadn’t hated the first film, I decided to give it a chance. Unfortunately, it quickly became clear that this was another pointless rom-com sequel that we all Read More…
Girl, Woman, Other: the multifaceted reality of Black British womanhood
Bernadine Evaristo opens her eighth novel with a dedication that reads: “For the sisters & the sistas & the sistahs & the sistren & the women & the womxn & the wimmin & the womyn & our brethren & our bredrin & our brothers & our bruvs & our men & our mandem & the Read More…
Normal People: Simply A Classic
Me, an interviewer: “So, Mr William Self, esteemed author and journalist, what did you think of Normal People?” Mr Self, esteemed author and journalist: “I read a few pages of Sally Rooney’s book. It may say things that millennials want to hear reflected back at them, but it’s very simple stuff with no literary ambition Read More…
Historical fiction: Regenerating the psychological power of the past
Mitchell Marshall explores the importance of history and historical fiction for the understanding of our psychology and what makes us humans,