Literature

Habima

May 1, 2012

Jamie Beckett investigates the controversy at the Globe Theatre, which finds itself to be at the centre of a boycott supported by many known actors after it announces its involvement with an Israeli theatre company in this year’s Cultural Olympiad.


Liberty

April 12, 2012

Plan UK’s charity anthology ‘Because I am a Girl’ is co-written by seven different authors who have experienced the beneficial work of Plan UK in the third world. Sophie Taylor talks to ‘Chocolat’ author Joanne Harris about her involvement in the project and how the anthology holds the potential to aid and liberate.


L. B. Rebel

April 12, 2012

Jamie Beckett admires Lord Byron’s bad boy image.


Inkling

April 12, 2012

Michael Tansini learns how not to worry about the absent elves.


Mirror

March 19, 2012

Jamie Beckett holds a mirror up to Oscar Wilde’s perception of image.


Novelty

March 19, 2012

Hollie Heenan looks at the not-so-ridiculous world of anthropomorphism in comics…


Short

March 19, 2012

Ellie Swire explores the under-appreciated literary form that is the short story.


Molehills

March 19, 2012

Christian Drury ascends the philosophical mountain of… well, mountains.


Revival

June 26, 2011

People often question why Shakespeare wrote the way he did – that his prose is convoluted and unrealistic. Sophie Taylor wants to put Shakespeare into words we’ll all understand. As long as they’re iambic and pentametrical.


Dylan

June 26, 2011

Lyndsey’s pledging her time to the ever-present question of what is poetry and what is music. One of us must know – sooner or later.