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What We Stand For: Ione Wells on the Paris attacks

On Saturday 14th November 2015 I woke up on my 21st birthday. That day also marked the end of the week that saw over 120 deaths in Paris’s shootings and bombings the night before, at least 43 deaths in Beirut’s suicide bombing, and over 20 deaths caused by a suicide bomber in Baghdad – all [&h

What We’re Into: Staff Picks

Having enjoyed her free renderings of Sappho, I picked up Anne Carson’s Antigonick (Sophokles), which is ostensibly a translation of the classical tragedy. True to form, Carson has taken a loose approach to her source material: I hadn’t got a page into the book before Antigone started an argumen

Half the population, only half the story: Western tourism’s revival in Afghanistan

“During a trip through Afghanistan, you will see beyond the turbulent current era and experience a beautiful country with a rich cultural history.” Safarat Travel One travel website offers paid tours throughout Afghanistan, promising to take the keen explorer places which will reve

The Age of the ‘Subversive’ Great Gatsby

Sometimes it seems our epoch is slowly running out of ideas. First came the slew of remakes – Disney films, old Hollywood classics, all went under Netflix’s dollar-bloated hammer. Now, when adapting the classics for the screen or for the stage, there seems to be a desire to find some unique angl

Manifesto Town

Believe me: when I scoop water into my palms, I see her face trembling at the surface. Dream your last dream, blow out the lamp, and believe me. In the cradling light her eyes reproach me and seem to say: I am being written against my will, you trickster. She whispers her name in my […]

Repatriation and Reconnection: An Interview with Saba Qizilbash

Saba Qizilbash is an excellent storyteller, which is fitting for an artist whose work is so concerned with narrative, from the interrogating and reworking of old narratives to weaving together new ones from the fragments of neglected histories. Burrowed into a corner of Blackwells’ Caffè Nero, sh

The Woman of the Perfume Ad

The woman of the perfume ad is a complex construct. The advertisers who create her are geniuses of manufacturing desire, of finely chiselling models into shape with slogan and sign. Perfume ads come with tropes: her armpits are hairless; no blemish taints her skin; her hair is slicked back with seaw

What We’re Into: Staff Picks

Playing with the Boys is the book that I dreamt of writing as a teenager. In a straightforward style, it recounts the challenges overcome by sixteen-year-old Niamh McKevitt when playing football throughout her childhood and adolescence. From playground pettiness to artificial barriers imposed by the