writer | researcher | academic
Happy Black History Month This post is an extended version of a comment I made on Brittany Lloyd's substack, because it deserved to be an article. Decolonisation has to be an everyday act. I know this from my own attempts: how often do you turn to the 'worthy' thing you might be doing, rather than... Continue Reading →
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 Cameron's movie Avatar, this book shows considerable understanding of genre and audience in a way... Continue Reading →
Travelogues from the UK.
EDC - stationery edition THE CASE I am not a huge believer in pencil cases: I love things that come in cute tins, boxes, pouches etc, and so typically I reappropriate those types of things whenever I need to store anything. My old pencil case was a box that some Taylor Swift merch came in,... Continue Reading →
10 books on my TBR
After a touch of quick maths yesterday, I discovered that if I read on average four books a month (not an insignificant amount) for the rest of my projected life, I will have read about half of my TBR as logged on the website StoryGraph. This being a website, and a relatively new one in... Continue Reading →
Growing up in a house of bootlegs, and developing my own music collection.
Four days is enough to see Lisbon well. Here is the Late Romantic dot com guide to this city break.
The method of studying is probably harder than the content, and I've got some ways of making it easier.
How do you feed your burgeoning love of live music without entirely emptying your wallet? As a veteran show-goer, I'm here to share my most loved performances, as well as a guide to the most famous festivals of the 20th century. What more could you need?
