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Qiu Maojin: Why This Groundbreaking Taiwanese Writer Matters

December 29, 2020December 23, 2020 Addie Crosby lgbtq, lgbtq books, literature, qiu maojin, taiwan

 ‘Shifting the Focus From Sylvia Plath’s Tragic Death to Her Brilliant Life,’ read a headline last month in The New

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Book Review: John Sellars’ Lessons In Stoicism

November 19, 2020January 14, 2021 Christian Wilkinson book review, Classics, literature, philosophy, stoicism

Stoicism is not an easy philosophy to adopt. It requires one to do away with a good deal of the

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Art Arts & Culture Books Film 

Period Drama & Painting

November 5, 2020November 4, 2020 Mairi Alice Dun art, film, Jane Austen, Painting, period drama, the crown

I don’t know if there are any other sleuths who like romantic period films out there, but if there are,

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Arts & Culture Books Music TV 

Art Recommendations for Winter

November 5, 2020November 4, 2020 Mairi Alice Dun, Marcus Judd, Milo Farragher-Hanks, Sairaa Bairns, Serafina Paladino arts, books, music, recommendations, television, winter

In any year, the winter is a typically a time spent inside – especially for us here by the Scottish

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Book Review: Black People Are Cropped, William Pope L.

October 8, 2020October 8, 2020 Mairi Alice Dun art, black people are cropped, books, william pope l.

This summer, following the crowd of people launching themselves on a mission to consume media in order to educate themselves

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Bookshops In The Bubble

October 8, 2020October 7, 2020 Marcus Judd books, bookshops, george orwell, literature

George Orwell once wrote he no longer buys books due to the disdain he developed of dead bluebottles on the

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Weighing Up The West Through Four Books

September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 Ally Addison book, books, geopolitcs, goodbye mr rosewater, graham greene, kurt vonnegut, literature, muhammad asad, peter frankopan, political books, politics, reading, road to mecca, the quiet american, the silk roads, the west

In my last article, I lauded Thailand’s quick and effective response to the Coronavirus pandemic compared to that of the

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An (Entirely Platonic) Love Letter to Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle

August 30, 2020September 5, 2020 Mia Kellner 1960s literature, american literature, literature, shirley jackson, we have always lived in the castle

It was a mild Friday in late April last year, the time when spring inches towards summer, and coursework deadlines

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Book Review – The Secret Lives Of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World

July 2, 2020September 5, 2020 Eva Ferguson book, book review, Introversion, introverts, Jenna Granneman, psychology, the secret life of introverts: inside our hidden world

There are two poignant memories from junior high and high school which come often into my mind. Realising I worked

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Arts & Culture Books Uncategorized 

The Lockdown Reading List

April 2, 2020September 5, 2020 Linden Grigg blindness, ethan frome, Midnight's Children, novels, poetry, reading, self portrait in a convex mirror, the day of the triffids

If, like me, you have little else to do at home than scroll mindlessly through Facebook, visit the nearby dairy

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