Aine Kennedy

A typical depiction of sleep paralysis may be found in Henry Fuseli’s 1781 painting ‘The Nightmare’. A woman in a clingy white dress sprawls...

There are two types of Korean faces that generally appear in the Western media. One is thin, chiselled, and attached to a K-pop star;...

A massive portrait of Ashley Walters looms over Kingsland High Road. Plastered across the second storey of a retail block, it gazes serenely over chicken shops, artisanal coffee houses, strip-lit barbershops, sourdough pizza restaurants.

Representations of violence and torture used to be an integral part of enforcing the social order - but in a world of uncensored live streams and graphic media content, has our attitude to atrocity really progressed - or does it remain an unacknowledged dark obsession of mankind?

The narrative of resistance and domination in relationships has been the recourse of storytellers since pre-Christian times, with the same lurid, visceral quality evident in Greek myth as in the modern trend of disturbingly violent porn. Yet these primal, animalistic tropes of female subjugation now exist in a ‘civilised’ society, whose vernacular is one of #TimesUp, sex positivity and high-street feminism.

The story’s intrigue has stopped people focusing on what is actually important.

Modern media has reinvented Catholicism as access to an intoxicating blend of nostalgia and taboo

"It's not free, love." I looked up from my third slice of sunwarmed, spongy Hovis, and into the narrowed eyes of a middle-aged white woman...

One environmentally conscious bleeder's tricky situation may shock the reader.

Charity work may often have selfish motivations, but it still raises awareness and money for good causes.

Debunking the Unk: the curious tale of Curtis Adams

Last week, The Economist took it upon itself to settle once and for all the debate around which of your mates ‘does a real degree’, which...

'The Economist's' giddy attacks on an elitist Oxbridge reduce the issue to a caricature.

Welcome to exam season, and the eating habits that accompany it