Recent debates have highlighted a need for greater diversity within the UK’s literary landscape. What is less settled however, are questions concerning the representation of BAME characters in literary texts. Debate has […]
by Beth Wiffen Remember when you used to curl up in bed with the best book you had ever read? Remember when you were so immersed in a book that you could almost […]
As a teenager I once attended a voluntary lecture given by one of my English teachers that asked one question: ‘are comic books literature?’ I went in expecting Mr Novell (who often […]
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 […]
by Lizzy Holling A caravan in the York Museum Gardens collected electrical activity firing in people’s brains to produce one of 18 billion possible stories. This was the screening site of The Moment, […]
by Lauren Cole Banksy, Instagram, January 2018, UK. The March 2019 deadline for the UK leaving the EU is looming. Politicians, celebrities and everyday folk alike debate the pros and cons of […]
by Lucy Middleton Going, going, gone! As the auctioneer dropped his gavel at the premier art destination Sotheby’s, shockwaves reverberated through the packed-out saleroom, shredding the art world as we know it. […]
A collection of essays addressed to our post-truth expectations. Samuel Bowell John Berger’s last collection of essays was published in October of 2016. The following month the Oxford English Dictionary authorized a […]
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