Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s magnum opus, Frankenstein, has greatly influenced the arts over the past centuries. Spanning novels, characters inspired by the creature, and film adaptations that provide space for their own interpretation with artistic uniqueness and pioneering elements from the classic story. Among them is Guillermo del Toro’s version, released this year, which amassed 29.1M… Continue reading Parental Trauma Themes and Biblical Allusions in Frankenstein
In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux, in a somewhat self-indulgent practice, recounts her girlhood: all its desire, shame and vulnerability that encircles the years of female adolescence. Ernaux’s creative ability to place herself into the body of her 18-year-old self means reliving sexual and emotional trauma. She divulges into the summer of 1958 when she worked as… Continue reading Journey to the self: detangling adolescent desire and conditioned female shame in A Girl’s Story
“At a time when man was still at the initial stages of his civilisation and his thought had not yet consciously come to serve objective truth, the resort to myth was the only way to supply an answer to the questions which exercised him” Stavropoulou, M. (1997) Greek Mythology: Gods and heroes – the Trojan… Continue reading A Prophet of Discourse: What would Hermes make of digital communication?
“Do I really need to read classics?” – for many years, even despite having majored in literature, my answer would’ve been a simple: “no”. My initial experience with classics was similar to that of many others; they were forced down my throat in high school and made me occasionally question whether I liked reading at all. Countless… Continue reading Do you really need to read the classics?
Part memoir, part obituary-of-sorts dedicated to Arundhati Roy’s late mother, Mary Roy, this somewhat holy yet unorthodox text, Mother Mary Comes To Me, redefines motherhood, all the while reforming the memoir genre. Bound by a ruby red cover and veiled with a half sleeve fashioning Roy’s portraits in young adulthood and now, this text underlines… Continue reading Mother Mary Comes To Me – The Memoir Redefining Motherhood
For as long as we can recall philosophers, poets and scientists alike have grappled with the seemingly impossible task of defining the essence of love, and as an extension of this the essence of humanity. We now live in a society where technology is entrenched in our everyday lives and the question is taking on a new… Continue reading What It Means to Love: Humanity and Artificial Intelligence in Klara and the Sun
There are times when I think of Monet, not the artist immortalised on posters and tote bags, but the man standing knee deep in mud beside the Seine, brush trembling in cold fingers, on an autumn morning much like this one. The sting of rejections whirling through his mind, and the quiet ache of believing… Continue reading Monet and the Cost of Creation
Throughout 2025, mostly thanks to the film A complete Unknown hitting cinemas and a further exploration of his career, there has been a rekindling in the interest of Bob Dylan. A whole new generation of youngsters have discovered that nasally-voiced mysterious Jewish boy who roamed Greenwich village in the folk clubs and coffeehouses all those years ago.… Continue reading The politics of Dylan
Tucked away behind the display of 1800s European artwork at Denver Art Museum is a new exhibition titled What We’ve Been Up To: Landscape – a collection of pictures from the museum’s photography department which have never before been displayed to the public. Entering the exhibition is like stepping into the museum’s archives themselves, an… Continue reading ‘What we’ve been up to’: Denver Art Museum Exhibition Reveals an America That Is and Was
At the turn of the new millennium, the world held its breath in fear of the Y2K bug. Would a computer be able to differentiate the year 2000 from 1900? 25 years on, technology has become more advanced, smaller, and more innovative than ever seen before. The internet now fits in your pocket, you can… Continue reading Turning Back Time: Why Gen Z Are Returning to Analogue Tech
