Melt by Steven Taylor The day that Trump announced the USwas taking over Gaza and going to developthe seafront (in particular) as prime real estate after removing... Continue reading
2024 saw a string of brewery closures and takeovers. Wild Card in Walthamstow sadly fell victim to an accumulation of COVID debts, while venture capitalists Keystone (Breal)... Continue reading
Alexander Polzin’s Hommage a Paul Celan, Jardin Anne Frank, Paris Edward Mackinnon writes about Paul Celan, and his poem Shibboleth Shibboleth Together with my stones,heavy with weepingbehind... Continue reading
Fred Voss, 8th July 1952 to 27th January 2025 Peter Raynard pays tribute to a great American poet The poet Fred Voss, who has died at the... Continue reading
Emancipating Ancestors by Jenny Mitchell I’ll free them allby digging deep enoughto haul their battered bodiesfrom the years of disturbed soil. As they emerge – some dark,... Continue reading
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979 – Gueorgui Pinkhassov/Magnum Photos, CC image. Jack Clarke speaks with Sergey Toymentsev, Assistant Professor of Russian in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures... Continue reading
Mark Perryman celebrates the meaning of Bob Marley, whose birthday would have been Thursday 6th February As self-styled ‘sporting outfitters of intellectual distinction’ at Philosophy Football we’ve... Continue reading
Scott Alsworth reviews Everything to Play For: How Videogames are Changing the World, by Marijam Did, Verso, 2024 Can videogames be a force for good in the... Continue reading
Jon Baldwin reviews Hybrid Images and the Vanishing Point of Digital Visual Effects by Tom Livingstone, Edinburgh University Press, 2024 This is a fascinating book which examines... Continue reading