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Gossip Is Serious Business, says Kelsey McKinney

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

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

David Ward -
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...
Culture Couch

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

Yamini Krishnan -
“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...
Armchair Arbiters

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

Yuvraj Nathani -
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...
Essays

No Goodbye

Richard Britton -
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....
Culture Couch

The Egg Timer

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

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

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

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

Zara Flavia Dmello -
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...
Armchair Arbiters

Perfect Days: The Contentment of Solitude

Niladri Sen -
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...
Culture Couch

For the Spirit of Sport: Cricket’s Culture War

Kartikay Dutta -
A few months ago, a new quote began to make the rounds on basketball Twitter. It picked up from Latin American Marxist revolutionary Che...
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