They’re silly, but the singer’s statement pants are an important comment on female storytelling.
- Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
Almost total journalistic shutdown is worsening the UK prison crisis.
To understand the full context of Rachel Dolezal’s ‘transracialism’ it pays to look at the history of race and slavery.
The only thing scarier than the film are some of the reviews.
Though sharing with Fifty Shades the overall themes of sexual domination and submission, Story of O remains a work of substantial literary merit.
The Fall writer Alan Cubitt is ‘hurt and upset’ at being accused of misogyny. But maybe misogyny isn’t the point.
It’s difficult to ignore the proto-religious fervour that has accompanied Corbyn on his whirlwind tour of top-level politics.
From football to the space race and folklore to the forest, here's why you should back the little guy.
Why we’re being asked to decide whether Amber Heard is one of two archetypes: the gold-digging, manipulative siren or the innocent female victim.
Exactly how does one structurally define a fairy tale, and can we accurately describe The Foxes’ win as such?
After years of plastic surgery and progressive skin-bleaching, Lil’ Kim is not black any more.
If we can even begin to recognise and celebrate hip hop for what it was, we just may have the beginnings of a suitable epitaph for Phife Dawg.
Amnesia won’t help us much in the event of an apocalypse.
What can we expect from this newly discovered manuscript from a much-beloved author?
Privately, we grieve for those we’ve loved. Publicly, we grieve for those we’ve never even met.
New adult Ladybird books on The Hipster and The Husband fall flat.
Bristol Old Vic is currently coming to the end of its run of a new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play The Crucible, a dramatisation of the Salem witch trials that occurred in New England towards…
In the middle of a rose garden, on a leafy road in northwest London, nestles the Freud Museum – though the petals, in October, are tumbling. The house, at 20 Maresfield Gardens, is the proud bearer of…
At the opening night of her private view and book launch, poet and artist Frieda Hughes appeared at the door of the Belgravia Gallery in Mayfair, a small but striking figure in a pillarbox-red suit. In…
Ah, Twitter. So quick to bear arms in righteous indignation. But so quick, too, to forget. This week “the internet”, which term has usurped what used to be known as “public opinion”, is upset about some…
In the same week that Charlie Hebdo’s cartoon of Aylan al-Kurdi made the headlines, I’m reminded of another controversial image. In 1840, J M W Turner exhibited what would become one of his most famous…
Banksy has pulled off a modern retelling of ancient fairy tales.
If Kim Kardashian is being peddled to us as both art and feminism, we – and she – are in really dire straits.
The American film Dear White People has seen some controversy over its UK release. Here’s why.
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