Essays

Between Willows and Walls: The 1960s at Eton College

  There’s no doubt that the possibility of enrolment in what is generally considered to be the world’s most renowned public school should be regarded...

Found in Translation: On ‘Heart Lamp’ and Women We Meet Through Other Tongues

Heart Lamp takes you by the hand and plunges you into the tangled chaos of the everyday lives of Muslim women in Karnataka. Where...

The Final Cut of Thomas Shelby

Disclaimer: Contains major spoilers for Season 6 of Peaky Blinders “It means you f*** people. F*** people over. Don’t give a f***. It means you covet...

Gossip Is Serious Business, says Kelsey McKinney

In Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “To a philosopher, all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it...

Sunlight, Scandals, and Sea Spray: Summer of ’59

Part One: Juan-Les-Pins--Comic Books, Cold Chicken, and the Hotel Juana The summer vacation that I was fortunate enough to experience, one school term prior to...

Love Through the Looking Glass: Taylor Swift and Referencing the Self

“Lookin’ backwards/ might be the only way to move forward”—Taylor Swift, “The Manuscript”. “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”—Lewis Carroll, “Through...

Peter Cat R.C.: The Art of Indie Reinvention

Life at the end of 2024 is a strange mix of relying on AI to run your intellectual chores while wondering whether it’ll replace...

No Goodbye

From my early childhood Lenny Myers was my best friend as I grew up in Post-War Rushden, Northamptonshire where we had both been born....

The Egg Timer

In the collaborative game of Hanabi, players work together to create vibrant fireworks in 5 different colours, caught between moments of joy and panic...

From Pages to Pixels: The Literary Alchemy of ‘One Day’

To retell is to reminisce, to reimagine, and even readapt to a world that evolves with the gust of change. The stories that are...