Viral Protest: online reaction to Malala Yousafzai and Berkin Elvan
Malala’s case demonstrates how powerful youth protest can still be as a symbol transmitted across the world
Motown to Ghost Town: Detroit’s Urban Decay
Detroit is Motown, the birthplace of the hits that changed America and with it the world. But it’s also a ghost town, around its broken centre of clustered skyscrapers and Tigers stadium
NOTES FROM THE GROUND: DISPATCH #2, G&D’s
One imagines that the "little children" Jesus welcomed in Matthew 10 came clutching one scoop tubs of G&D's "Dime Bar Crunch"
Rare Phenomenons: An Interview With Eleanor Hardwick
Atmospheric photography, original set design, the scent of thunderstorms and eclectic costuming all form part of Eleanor Hardwick's experimental-electro-ambient pop music duo 'Moonbow'
Notes from the Ground: Dispatch #1, The Missing Bean
If the coffee weren't the Platonic form of all caffeinated drinks, the Bean's purpose would be primarily symbolic.
The Incredulity of St Thomas: icon and iconography
'Thomas is the archetypal skeptic... there is something absurd, then, in the notion of him having his request answered so literally, and of such an answer prompting real belief'
Femislam: the Quran and gender equality
Through fierce historical and hermeneutic critique, Islamic feminists aim to refute the charge that Islam is fundamentally and inherently misogynistic
Hart Island: The Resting Place of New York’s Unclaimed Dead
Hart Island, the largest tax-funded cemetery on Earth affords the only burial ground for the unclaimed, indigent and destitute dead of New York City