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‘A poem of objects that live by magic’: the poetry of Anna Mendelssohn

31 August 2016 / 635

Vicky Sparrow introduces the poetry of Anna Mendelssohn, imprisoned for her association with the Angry Brigade, and discusses how its ‘attentive concern’ rescues objects and people from... Continue reading

Vicky Sparrow

Fiction

The child colonisers: fanfiction and young people’s reading power

31 August 2016 / 323

Dr. Lucy Pearson explores the radical potential of fanfiction for young readers and other marginalised groups, especially in a media environment which is still focused on the... Continue reading

Lucy Pearson

Eating & Drinking

A culture of overconsumption

30 August 2016 / 355

Dr Emma Boyland starts a new series for Culture Matters about eating and drinking, and the politics and economics involved in moulding a culture of overconsumption. It... Continue reading

Emma Boyland

Cultural Commentary

A Terrible Beauty: The Cultural Impact of the 1916 Easter Rising

2 August 2016 / 360

Paul Foley presents a history and analysis of the cultural impact of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. As commemorations for the centenary of the 1916 Easter... Continue reading

Paul Foley

Visual Arts

The persistence of protest: the preventative photography of Edward Barber

1 August 2016 / 490

A woman sits on a fold-up chair, with a sign – ‘Hello, can you stop for a talk?’ – inviting passersby to stop for a chat about... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Films

Once Upon a Time this West was full of Radicals: Sergio Leone, Revolution and Religion

19 June 2016 / 313

James Crossley analyses Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns, unearthing their twin discourses of a materialist explanation of American capitalism and an expression of a revolutionary Christianity. Even if... Continue reading

James Crossley

Theatre

Cubanacan: The Dream of Cuban Revolution

19 June 2016 / 354

Andrew Warburton reviews Cubanacan, the first new Cuban opera in almost 50 years. When Cubanacan: A Revolution of Forms received its world premiere at the Havana Biennale... Continue reading

Andrew Warburton

Fiction

Reactionaries and Revolutionaries: Classical Fairy Tales and Class

19 June 2016 / 508

Professor Anne Duggan explores the history of classical fairy tales and their double-sided relationship with class, whereby they both ‘evade and compensate for a dire social reality’,... Continue reading

Anne Duggan

Religion

Jesus and Marx

16 June 2016 / 539

Through exploring points of contact between Jesus of Nazareth, Karl Marx, and Lenin, Roland Boer finds new and richer layers of shared meanings betwen the Bible and communism,... Continue reading

Roland Boer

Fiction

Yours for the Revolution: the life of Jack London

16 June 2016 / 317

John Green introduces the life of Jack London. There is a hullabaloo around the quincentenary this year of Shakespeare’s death, but Jack London’s centenary appears to have... Continue reading

John Green

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