“I’d rather have regrets about not doing something, than regret doing it”: In conversation with Game of Thrones star, John Bradley
John Bradley West is an English actor famous for his role as Samwell Tarly in HBO’s massive global hit fantasy TV series, Game of...
Babel, or the Beauty of Multilingualism
Emerald Ace-Acquah reflects on the complexities of language, colonisation, and power, as explored in R. F. Kuang's new novel.
Fantasy: medieval European influences and alternatives
Faeries, elves, centaurs, wizards, dragons. In its purest form, fantasy is one of the most ancient literary genres, and fantastical elements can be found...
A Worm on What If
"A delicate chain bobs around his neck (his neck being the whole length of his body, which is just one long neck really); he bought it after watching Normal Worms. Maybe if he looked like worm-Connell, he imagines, things would have been different. Maybe worm-Sharon wouldn’t have left him for worm-Darren."
Unterwegs
So let us meet at the station, then,
and what happens after we can decide again
The Muse in Film: Winona Ryder and Tim Burton
When Winona Ryder first met Tim Burton, they talked like old friends about movies and music for over half an hour before realising that...
A Hiatus for Fantasy?
Current twenty-year olds grew up watching adaptations of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth adventures on the Big Screen, reading Rowling’s Hogwarts shenanigans and dreaming of getting lost in Lewis’ Narnia.
Sensual Absence in Jim Jarmusch
"If there is one thing Stranger than Paradise and Down by Law teach about Jarmusch, it is that he does a disservice to himself every time he makes a film in technicolour"
Dream Worlds
Marc Chagall's ethereal landscapes
