by Rachel Day Video games may not be the first thing that come to mind as a way of encouraging children to read, but they’re exactly what computer scientists at Lancaster University […]
Minecraft and the Story Map
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The Art of Literary Cartography
by Rachel Day How would you navigate from the Shire to Mordor? Box-shaped mountain ranges and bizarre drainage basins aside, Middle Earth’s topography poses questions about crossing literary landscapes. As a writer, […]
The Weird World of Webseries
by Adam Drazsky “Clay is one of the easiest ways in the world to get Lynk’s Disease… and that doesn’t wash off,” informs a ragged-looking Alan Resnick in the eerie psychological horror […]
Bowie in Numbers
by Adam Drazsky What goes into lyrics, and what does a musician’s writing reveal about their artistic development? David Bowie’s near five-decade career had its ups and downs, matched, in striking ways, […]
A Christmas Carol: The Ghosts of Christmas Past
by Emily McKinney Think you’ve never met a ghost? Think again. As foretold by Dickens, the ‘Ghosts of Christmas’ haunt us each year. The Christmas song comes out of hiding in November […]
Is Walt Whitman the Old Kanye?
by Emily McKinney When Kanye West told us that he “missed the old Kanye” did he really mean the old Kanye? Or did he mean the old, old Kanye – the nineteenth-century […]
Controversial Cartoons: Drawing Our Attention
by Sian Erskine Representations of minority groups are under scrutiny – and rightly so. Despite the commercial and critical success of films and shows that foreground diversity, the industry still engages in […]
Taking Twitter Serialization Seriously
by Sian Erskine With a 280-character limit, a series of tweets is not the first place you expect to find great literature. But the production of serialized fiction isn’t new — look […]
Much Ado About Rapping
by Lauren Cole Bashy x Akala, Richard II – ‘Being So Great’, Hip-hop Shakespeare Company, SBTV. What if we could experience brand-spanking new Shakespearean-style verse on a daily basis? Well, it’s closer […]
Instagram Book Clubs: Social Media’s Utopia
by Holly Lawley In an online world that increasingly engages us in fiery yet futile debates, are Instagram book clubs the perfect antidote? These social media utopias inspire members to share their […]
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