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London Literature Festival 2021: Mieko Kawakami's Heaven
Centred on the expansive theme of friendship, this year’s London Literature Festival inaugurated Japanese writer’s Mieko Kawakami’s novel...
Isabela Palancean
Feb 9, 20223 min read


London Literature Festival 2021: Creative Future Writers' Award
As part of the 2021 Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival, the organisation Creative Future hosted their annual Writers’ Award,...
Maisie Allen
Jan 24, 20225 min read


Poetry + Film Hack: Rocks and the beauty of adolescent friendship
Set in the Barbican’s Pit, viewers were immersed into an emotional and sensory experience centred around the Black femme experience,...
Maisie Allen
Dec 11, 20214 min read


The French Dispatch and Wes Anderson’s Aesthetic at 180 Studios – A Review
Written by Hebe Hancock and Mikayla Lorini “The second thing I always wanted to do was to make a movie about the New Yorker”. The film is not totally based around the New Yorker magazine, but it was “totally inspired by it”. Delayed for months due to COVID, The French Dispatch is one of this year’s most anticipated films. With a star studded cast that boasts Adrien Brody as the art dealer, Timothee Chalamet as a student revolutionary movement leader, Frances McDormand as Ame
Mikayla Lorini
Dec 5, 20216 min read


Common Ground: Friendships and London at the 2021 London Literature Festival
Of London, friendships and friendships with London. “Common Ground” with Caleb Azumah Nelson, Vanessa Onwuemezi and Naomi Ishiguro Image...

Majka Wankiewicz
Dec 3, 20213 min read


Three Rooms: Carving Out a Space of Your Own
Narrated by an unnamed woman of colour, Jo Hamya’s novel explores this character’s tumultuous journey into employment following her short...
Aybike Ceren Kahveci
Oct 18, 20215 min read


Intersectionality and Climate Change: Lessons from London Climate Action Week 2021
As the largest independent climate event in Europe, this year’s London Action Climate Week (LCAW) was held between 26th June and 4th...
Chen Ly
Jul 7, 20212 min read


Discovering the Art of Birding
Photo by Dong Liu With a bit of shuffle, we halted on the muddy path trodden by a few other explorers. It seemed as if no one wanted to...
Dong Liu
May 8, 20214 min read


A Different Path
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...
Aybike Ceren Kahveci
Apr 16, 20214 min read


In Conversation with Ollie Gold, Founder of North London Bakery Popham's
Popham's opened in 2017, at their first humble site on Prebend Street in Islington. With an array of unforgettable pastries, brilliant coffee, and a beautiful decor of gentle ceramics and dried flowers, Popham's has quickly become a staple of the London food scene. This fact only solidified itself further with the opening of their larger site in London Fields in the summer of 2019, which is a feat of interior design that accommodates both a welcoming atmosphere to walk in and
Eloise Wright
Sep 25, 202012 min read
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