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Ink to Screen: How BookTok is Reshaping the Publishing Landscape
After receiving the Orange Prize Award in 2012, Madeleine Miller’s novel, The Song of Achilles sold approximately 50,000 units. It saw a...
Molly Whiting
Dec 20, 20236 min read


In conversation with Crap Film Club
Crap Film Club is a group which meets every month or so to watch a terrible, terrible film and laugh. A lot. It seems like a winning...
Barney Nuttall
Dec 20, 20239 min read


‘Eileen’ Review: A Quizzical And Chilling Thriller That Reaches An Uncertain End
William Oldroyd’s film adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s 2015 debut novel Eileen is an unsettling and dryly funny thriller. The unlikeable...
Maleehah Laher
Dec 20, 20233 min read
Review: Robert Mapplethorpe, 'Subject Object Image' at the Alison Jacques Gallery
Robert Mapplethorpe was unquestionably a visionary photographer, pushing the boundaries of his medium while making viewers wrestle their...
Meghana Praveen
Dec 20, 20232 min read


'Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget' Review: Aardman Animations Are Sticking To Their Roots
The stop-motion sequel to the hit comedy animation Chicken Run (2000) premiered in London earlier this year at the BFI London Film...
Amy Everard
Dec 19, 20234 min read


The Ultimate Sip: London’s Top 10 Bubble Tea Havens
In recent years, bubble tea (also known as boba) has taken the world by storm, finding its way into the hearts of many Londoners. Perhaps...
Hebe Hancock
Dec 19, 20236 min read


Reviewing ‘Lady Disdain’: A Y2K Dream Adaptation of 'Much Ado About Nothing’
The latest effervescent play from the King’s Shakespeare Company, Lady Disdain, is a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado...
Roxy-Moon Dahal Hodson
Dec 15, 20233 min read


Reviewing 'The Mongol Khan': A Visually Stunning, Theatrical Spectacle
Lkhagvasuren Bavuu’s three-act tragedy The State Without a Seal is luridly and deftly brought to life in Hero Baatar’s stage adaptation...
Vaishnavi Reddy
Dec 14, 20233 min read


An Evening in the In-Between: Bi+ Lines at the National Poetry Library
Photo by Anainah Dalal So often, in art and all that surrounds it, we tend to get caught up in binaries. Binaries of meanings and...
Anainah Dalal
Dec 14, 20234 min read


'Dido and Aeneas' by King’s Opera Society: Our Review and Recognising the Role of the Orchestra
★★★★★ Writer Trisha Gupta reviews Mya Kelln’s recent production of Dido and Aeneas by King’s Opera Society, and discusses the vital role...
Trisha Gupta
Dec 13, 20234 min read
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