Ozempic, selfie-culture, and self-esteem
Paint me in oils, don’t take a photo.
Contemplating The Fridge Magnet
Home Décor: Tourist Style
Reading Recommendations based on Why You Liked 50 Shades
Brought to you by my PhD chapter on 50 Shades being heavily underway (dare I say almost complete?) 50 Shades of Grey is a peculiar artefact in that it is astoundingly popular and also near immediately forgotten. Similar to James…
A Room of One’s Own and Middlebrow Entertainment
Debating the dead: Virginia Woolf edition Virginia Woolf, famously and with great perspicacity, imagined Shakespeare’s sister. Without A Room of [Her] Own in which to write, Woolf argues, she is “washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed”.…
Queer, Sultry Summer
A review of recent Sylvia Plath events 25th June – Waterstone’s Hampstead (London) Heather Clark (author of Red Comet) and Helen Bain (author of The Daffodil Days). Highlights: 27th June – Newnham College (Cambridge) I couldn’t attend this one as…
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