Einstein on the Beach
ISIS travelled to Amsterdam to see a performance of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s iconic modern opera.
Nollywood
The burgeoning Nigerian film industry has unleashed a wave of cultural imperialism which is sweeping across Africa. From ISIS HT'11
ISIS Eye 2013
The first thing I saw when I woke up in 2013. Welcome to ISIS Eye 2013!
The Strange Life of Mavungu
In one of Oxford’s darker museum cabinets, a wooden figure is frozen in an eternal gasp. Its oversized eyes are painted a pallid white, widening as if trapped in a moment of grotesque revelation. An arm is raised in wrath, and its torso, like an eruption of shrapnel, is violently studded with nail
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
In the film Limitless, Bradley Cooper’s character Eddie discovers a little transparent pill, NZT-48, which equips him with super-human intelligence and transforms his life. In Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections, Edith assuages the plagues and pains of old age by illicit prescription of A
Why Big is Small in Pakistan
The Fakir Khana Museum, a ‘hevaley’ housing a vast collection of eclectic artefacts assembled over six generations, is stifling in Lahore’s August heat. Unfazed by the rivulets of sweat coursing down his face, its owl-eyed curator is about to present one of his most precious treasures. “How