Man Booker Prize 2017: ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ and the Limits of Politics in Fiction
Arundhati Roy’s politics and her storytelling have always been intertwined. The Indian writer...
Read Moreby Rosemary Collins | Oct 3, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
Arundhati Roy’s politics and her storytelling have always been intertwined. The Indian writer...
Read Moreby Georgina Wilson | Aug 30, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight
“Regret – not now, maybe later”, says the unnamed Her (Billie Piper). She thinks it might be a...
Read Moreby Rosemary Collins | Aug 21, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
One of the defining images of the Brontë family, displayed on the cover of Juliet Barker’s epic...
Read Moreby Ruth Phillips | Aug 7, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
Here is an anecdote from a friend: My sister, who is now actually a practicing doctor, when asked...
Read Moreby Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Aug 5, 2017 | Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Features, Interviews, Performance
Eggs Collective consists of Sara Cocker, Lowri Evans, and Léonie Higgins. Based in Manchester they...
Read Moreby Rocco Thompson | Jul 27, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film
As Wonder Woman lasso-of-truthed into theaters on June 2nd, film and comic geeks alike waited with...
Read Moreby Katie Goh | Jul 21, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
The Power – winner of the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and critically lauded as The...
Read Moreby Sorin Floti | Jul 18, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film
Dictionary definitions of masculinity circle around having qualities or appearances traditionally...
Read Moreby Alex Killeen | Jul 12, 2017 | Features, Interviews, Literature & Film, Performance
Phyllida Lloyd has recently conducted a revolutionary experiment with Shakespeare. Billed as the...
Read Moreby Alex Killeen | Jul 10, 2017 | Features, Interviews, Literature & Film, Performance
Jackie Clune plays the title role in Phyllida Lloyd’s latest production of Julius Caesar,...
Read Moreby Dzifa Benson | Jun 24, 2017 | Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Features, Interviews, Performance
For most of her life, dancer, choreographer, and theatre-maker Pauline Mayers has had to battle...
Read Moreby Victoria Fell | Jun 12, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
For those without kind and loving friends from whom you steal Netflix, let me introduce you to The...
Read Moreby Katie Goh | Jun 1, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
“Nope nope nope,”[1] said the tabloids, disgusted, “French horror film Raw has inspired such...
Read Moreby Bianca Jenkins | May 22, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
Girlboss is a show for which I’ve been waiting a long time. Sophia Amoruso is one of retail’s most...
Read Moreby Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Apr 13, 2017 | Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Performance, Spotlight
JOAN: Milk Presents, in association with Derby Theatre Underbelly, Cowgate (Venue 61) Aug 21-25,...
Read Moreby Elizabeth Wilson | Apr 9, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
Ok, stop me if you’ve heard this before: “What shall we think about those witches who somehow take...
Read Moreby Max Adams | Apr 6, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight
The advertising for this production of Le Gateau Chocolat: Black features prominently a quote from...
Read Moreby Rocco Thompson | Mar 29, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film
“I was a legendary terror. I was insufferably rude and ill-mannered in the cultivation of my...
Read Moreby Victoria Fell | Mar 26, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
I’m very close with my mother. Not Gilmore Girls’ Rory/Loralei levels of bonding over men and...
Read Moreby Eleanor Dumbill | Mar 13, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film
The idea that eating fruit can somehow be connected to (im)proper notions of behaviour for women...
Read Moreby Elizabeth Wilson | Mar 8, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
Think of a witch. Any witch. I’m willing to bet you’ve imagined some hideous old crone, bent over...
Read Moreby Charlie Seymour | Mar 8, 2017 | Features, Performance
It is tempting to see something masculine in the powerful women of Renaissance tragedy, to hold...
Read Moreby Victoria Fell | Mar 8, 2017 | Features, Performance
2003 shaped my life. I finally reached double digits (plus the lofty heights of Year 6 to boot)...
Read Moreby Nisha Desai | Mar 8, 2017 | Art & Exhibitions, Features
The Venice Biennale is one of the longest running cultural festivals in the world. Founded in...
Read Moreby Eleanor Stoltzfus | Mar 8, 2017 | Art & Exhibitions, Features
Lorna Simpson first came to prominence as a conceptual artist in the mid-1980s, after graduating...
Read Moreby Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Mar 8, 2017 | Features, Performance
Joan of Arc has been a dominant figure in both medieval studies and in culture more generally,...
Read Moreby Bianca Jenkins | Mar 8, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
There has been a fresh collection of female-led online television in the last few years. From the...
Read Moreby Beth Longman | Mar 6, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
The final image with which we are left in “Fifty shades of Grey” is of Anastasia Steele, hair...
Read Moreby Rocco Thompson | Feb 28, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film
“As a director, my goal is to be completely open. Just look at how I portray sex in my...
Read Moreby Max Adams | Feb 24, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight
In the National Theatre’s current production of Twelfth Night, showing until the 13th of May,...
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