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Fashion’s insider shoe has become a little too easy to recognise.
In the internet age, all that is solid melts into data. This includes the work of authors, songwriters and artists, ostensibly protected by the law of copyright.
Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or revolutionary as it seemed.
A romance writer’s bizarre fake death has gone viral. That her being alive stayed undetected for 2.5 years reminds us that our online and published personas are still separate from real life.
To cancel or not to cancel? As the debate inevitably rages on, here are two extra perspectives to help add some nuance to the debate
In Terry Kurgan’s book family history, however tortuous, is subsumed into a greater history of the greatest atrocity.
Posters with the phrase “It’s okay to be white” were found around the campus of the University of Manitoba. What does it really mean?






