Dr. Lucy Pearson explores the radical potential of fanfiction for young readers and other marginalised groups, especially in a media environment which is still focused on the... Continue reading
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Dr Emma Boyland starts a new series for Culture Matters about eating and drinking, and the politics and economics involved in moulding a culture of overconsumption. It... Continue reading
Paul Foley presents a history and analysis of the cultural impact of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. As commemorations for the centenary of the 1916 Easter... Continue reading
A woman sits on a fold-up chair, with a sign – ‘Hello, can you stop for a talk?’ – inviting passersby to stop for a chat about... Continue reading
James Crossley analyses Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns, unearthing their twin discourses of a materialist explanation of American capitalism and an expression of a revolutionary Christianity. Even if... Continue reading
Andrew Warburton reviews Cubanacan, the first new Cuban opera in almost 50 years. When Cubanacan: A Revolution of Forms received its world premiere at the Havana Biennale... Continue reading
Professor Anne Duggan explores the history of classical fairy tales and their double-sided relationship with class, whereby they both ‘evade and compensate for a dire social reality’,... Continue reading
Through exploring points of contact between Jesus of Nazareth, Karl Marx, and Lenin, Roland Boer finds new and richer layers of shared meanings betwen the Bible and communism,... Continue reading
John Green introduces the life of Jack London. There is a hullabaloo around the quincentenary this year of Shakespeare’s death, but Jack London’s centenary appears to have... Continue reading
Diptych of Drones 1. Convenience Killing Over eight thousand miles awayfrom where the devastation wasa zap-happy, kapow-cowboyyeehah’d from his computer screen. A funeral party had diedin the... Continue reading
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