Chris Jury tells us why he can’t stand Shakespeare. I don’t like Shakespeare. There, I’ve said it. Said the unsayable. A man who claims to be literate,... Continue reading
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The Divided Self by Keith Armstrong ‘When’er my muse does on me glance, I jingle at her.’ (Robert Burns). Such an eye in a human head,from the... Continue reading
Dan Rosenberg offers an appreciation of Sidney Finkelstein, who died on 14 January 1974. Out Jumped Sidney The Marxist cultural critic Sidney Finkelstein lived in a suitcase... Continue reading
In a tribute to Russia’s theatrical experimenters, for whom the Revolution promised a new world of artistic possibilities, Amy Skinner presents a brief history of an art... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell discusses the focus on our common humanity in Robert Burns’s For A’ That, and the way it foretells the ‘programme which will govern the world... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell shows the poignant seasonal relevance of the wonderfully inclusive art in the Syrian Aleppo House. With everything that is happening in the world at the... Continue reading
On his 350th anniversary, Jenny Farrell outlines how Jonathan Swift’s books expressed and strengthened Ireland’s cultural struggle against English colonialism. Jonathan Swift was born 350 years ago,... Continue reading
On the 50th anniversary of Patrick Kavanagh’s death, Jenny Farrell draws out some of the political meanings of Patrick Kavanagh’s poem Epic. The Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell discusses the prophetic politics of the Gravedigger scene in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which class-based justice and fundamental human equality are discussed by those whose task it... Continue reading
universal credit by Fran Lock statues wake, and yawning, scrapethe birdshit from their tongues. londondrags a dirty nail across her fibroid lungs. the hoodies and the halfwits... Continue reading
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