On Tuesday 12 November, Samantha Harvey’s 5 th novel Orbital was announced as the winner of the Booker Prize 2024 in Old Billingsgate, London. The ceremony was livestreamed on YouTube and broadcast in ...

Sally Rooney has been circulating the book charts recently, due to the release of her novel, Intermezzo. Amid all the hype, I couldn’t forget Rooney’s most notable book, Normal People. With over one ...

Tyler, The Creator’s self-released mixtape marries homegrown, minimalist production with acerbic, aggro lyrics. Framed as a session with his therapist, Bastard depicts a tortured psyche plagued with ...

Billy Joel’s extensive discography features a lot of both real and fictional places. With another world tour coming up, we decided to look back and explore some of the places Joel has already visited ...

Pet Shop Boys have released a new double A-side single, ‘New London Boy / All the young dudes’. The two tracks offer a thematic exploration of London, capturing the period when Neil Tennant first ...

If child-like imagination (in all its wonder and all its pitfalls) were transformed into a feature-length film, that film would be The Science of Sleep (2006). Scrap cardboard, cellophane and PVA glue ...

Inspired by anecdotes from memoirs, movies and interviews, Peter Mountford and Jeanette Cronin devise a love letter to a Hollywood superstar that doesn’t quite hit its mark. The production neatly ...

What begins as a heist movie takes quick twists and turns to break out of the regular mould. Things Will Be Different is a battle against more than just time. Michael Felker, best known as an editor ...

Before I explain this point further, it would be good to give an overview of two of the books just to get to grips with the writing style as well as getting to know the titular characters in more ...

The Excluded Voices report shows that, even when representation is present, it is not by Own Voice creators. An Own Voice creator offers confidence that the worlds created or described in a book are ...

As the gaming world increasingly bleeds into mainstream culture, with hits like Fallout and The Last of Us gracing our streaming platforms (and a few flops too *cough* Borderlands *cough*), Chuck and ...