Armchair Arbiters

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...

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...

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...

Revisiting ‘Frances Ha’ –The Actual Gerwig-Baumbach Feminist Masterpiece?

Amid the grand acclaim last year for the Barbie movie as a landmark in feminist cinema, it’s worth revisiting another feminist screenplay that celebrated...

Perfect Days: The Contentment of Solitude

Wim Wenders' "Perfect Days" stands in stark contrast to the contemporary world, obsessed with frivolous ambition and the relentless pursuit of "being better." Self-help...

Reckoning with Dutch Imperialism and Racism: CAPE X UTRECHT Exhibition

Image: Farren van Wyk's collection of eight photographs titled, "Thirppy." The subtitled words face the pavement in front of Utrecht University of Arts’ (HKU) space...

A Retrospective: The Curious Case of Qala

Now that the dust has well and truly settled on 2022, and we wait poised for a summer of big Hindi film releases (although...

‘THE CAR’ by the Arctic Monkeys

To entertain, in some way, is to surprise, to question, to tease, and even to ruffle. The Car, Arctic Monkeys’ seventh LP, does all...