Brighton Beach
This was captured in Brighton Beach, one of Brooklyn’s most colorful neighborhoods. It is populated by the elderly parents of Russian immigrants and a stream of novelty pilgrims. Requiem for a Dream was shot here, and the locals sometimes make it look like filming is still in process. I w
Multilating Words, by Michael Hunt
The first in a selection of poems we will be publishing from the ISIS Magazine Poetry Competition.
Desperate Bicycles
Five men, with £153 in savings and borrowed money, rent a recording studio in desolate, decaying Dalston for three hours. They say they’re a band, but they haven’t rehearsed and they only own one instrument and one amplifier between them...
Medicaleze
"The misappropriation of medical terms now prevalent within the English language has created ‘medicaleze’, a language that inherits its authority from the popular myth of the reliability of science. Identifying the problem as an ‘itis’ or an ‘ism’ provides the reassurance of a name for a
Is Twitter killing the English language?
Though its arbitrary 140 character limit certainly affects the language people use on it, this does not mean that they are discarding complex words in favor of lazier alternatives or are substituting inane thoughts for brilliant ones just because they won’t fit. In fact, the opposite might be argu
A Faustian Diagram
Throw off your limitations, throw away your conscience, and you've achieved that glint of absolute freedom in Stalin's eye.
The Spirit of Things
Due to the rise of Pentecostal Christianity, traditional Afro-Brazilian religions - fascinating fusions of animistic beliefs and Catholic forms - are increasingly under threat
Mona Who?
Isis looks at the role of an audacious 1911 theft in starting the legend of this iconic painting.