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The Modern Prometheus and The American Prometheus: Scientists of Destruction

The Modern Prometheus and The American Promethe...

Kirstie Rodrigues Student writer Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the “father of the atomic bomb”, J Robert Oppenheimer, explores ethical conflicts within an attempt to reach scientific victory. Over two centuries...

The Modern Prometheus and The American Promethe...

Kirstie Rodrigues Student writer Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the “father of the atomic bomb”, J Robert Oppenheimer, explores ethical conflicts within an attempt to reach scientific victory. Over two centuries...

The Barbie Movie: From Paper to Plastic

The Barbie Movie: From Paper to Plastic

Zara Sharma Student writer   Barbie Unboxed: Feminism and Mental Health in the Dollhouse In a world where dolls and literature intersect, the Barbie movie of 2023 brings forth a...

The Barbie Movie: From Paper to Plastic

Zara Sharma Student writer   Barbie Unboxed: Feminism and Mental Health in the Dollhouse In a world where dolls and literature intersect, the Barbie movie of 2023 brings forth a...

HEAD TO HEAD:  Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis

HEAD TO HEAD: Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis

WHAT LINKS THEM?  Kingsley Born in 1922, Kingsley Amis, father of Martin, was an Oxford-educated comic novelist whose work satirised the social changes that England went through after the Second...

HEAD TO HEAD: Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis

WHAT LINKS THEM?  Kingsley Born in 1922, Kingsley Amis, father of Martin, was an Oxford-educated comic novelist whose work satirised the social changes that England went through after the Second...

Robert McCrum on D.H. Lawrence

Robert McCrum on D.H. Lawrence

I am a child of the late 1950s and 60s, raised on D.H. Lawrence (and some other books, too). As young teenagers in the summer of Love, we found our perception...

Robert McCrum on D.H. Lawrence

I am a child of the late 1950s and 60s, raised on D.H. Lawrence (and some other books, too). As young teenagers in the summer of Love, we found our perception...

I Can Connect Nothing With Nothing: How The Wasteland Speaks To Us in The Wake of a Pandemic

I Can Connect Nothing With Nothing: How The Was...

By Elsie Hayward  Student Writer   T.S Eliot’s modernist masterpiece The Wasteland was written in the aftermath of a devastating world war. The very fabric of it seems traumatised, being...

I Can Connect Nothing With Nothing: How The Was...

By Elsie Hayward  Student Writer   T.S Eliot’s modernist masterpiece The Wasteland was written in the aftermath of a devastating world war. The very fabric of it seems traumatised, being...

The Case for George Orwell

The Case for George Orwell

Barely a week goes by these days without some pundit citing George Orwell, and with good reason. Among the unhappy effects of 9/11 has been the explosion of the surveillance...

The Case for George Orwell

Barely a week goes by these days without some pundit citing George Orwell, and with good reason. Among the unhappy effects of 9/11 has been the explosion of the surveillance...