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Lately, I’m looking at my life in terms of fives. Five-year plans. Numbered milestones. 20, 25, divisible by. My head raised, I’m...

The Golden Ass, written in second-century Rome by the philosopher and author Apuleius, is one of the earliest novels in human history. It...

Burnout. That’s the best way I can describe how I’m feeling. I am burnt out. As my university journey draws to a close, I find myself...

Yesterday I was thinking about how we’re f*cked off with slogans now, they mean nothing, dripping dingy like reminders of an era...

It’s fair to say that one of the nation’s favourite Lockdown activities was baking, judging from the scores of homemade banana loaves and...

Image by Petra Eriksson Feminism is a topic that I’m constantly writing or reading about, and both as a movement and as a literary genre,...

Image by Laura Berger The spotlight on sexual harassment has indeed gotten brighter with the onset of the ‘Me Too’ movement, including...

Contemplating where we come from and how that makes us who we are is a lengthy process; all the words and pages are sometimes not enough....

Image via razum/Shutterstock. The first AI-written screenplay is promised to appear within five years. That’s sooner than most national...

A commitment-deficient generation wakes in a world where instant gratification is possible and endless options are available in every...