In ‘Dream Count’, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes about women and their bodies, love, mother-daughter relationships, happiness, power dynamics, and hip dips, above all things.
Poet, memoirist, and individual, John Yamrus, has been celebrated, hate-mailed, and at the receiving end of every reader response in-between. With his existing body of work and latest book entitled ‘Don’t Shoot the Messenger, Just Give Him a Good Place to Hide’, Yamrus synthesizes what he knows personally about life and literature.
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance is a gritty, hard-hitting film within the modern body horror genre that explores the internal turmoil one faces while transforming in an appearance-obsessed society.
“I have a plane to catch tonight & / I don’t know what to do with the heart falling out of my stomach”
The quarter-life crisis was all the rage back in college. “25” was the age to fear – the age when the frontal lobe fully develops. If you don’t have a job, and if you’re not married and a parent by then, there is clearly something wrong with you—at least, this is what the old customs…
Medicine and literature interweave in the poetry and prose of Helena Olufsen, who is speaking to the now while looking back.
Twenty four years ago Russell Crowe ‘unleashed hell’ and rippled his fingers through a field of wheat. Now the world is talking about Paul Mescal in a leather skirt. Swords and sandals, togas and temples and gladiators galore. Just what is it that makes the Romans so endlessly fascinating?
In the whirlwind of another trip around the Sun, solace can be found in the purposeful meditations of poets on those first two months of the year.
Grandma Moses, self-taught American primitive artist, painted many a winter scene.
“The mark left behind by a failed friendship continues to live with us for years to come and we are, whether to our benefit or our downfall, reminded of them every day.”
From the tea-towels and tinsel halos of primary school plays, to a go-to, tissues-at-the-ready seasonal film, to the thousands of stable-based images in Western art. Whether you are church-going or not, Christmas is associated with Mary, Joseph and a baby lying in a manger – the Nativity. But, like all religious festivals which have developed…
Writer and director Osgood “Oz” Perkins appears to ask penetrating questions with Longlegs (2024). So why does Perkins’ latest horror flick leave such a profound taste of disappointment behind in the mouth?
Sad Grownups is a short story collection by Amy Stuber released on October 8 from Stillhouse Press.
“Write, I said to myself, write and engrave your feelings, instead of keeping them in.”
Book review by Terry Trowbridge
In his groundbreaking 1972 TV series, Ways of Seeing, novelist and critic John Berger put this painting on the screen, describing it as ‘a landscape of a cornfield with birds flying out of it.’ What are you thinking? Hot sun and August days. Memories of country walks. The smell of warm grasses. Maybe you’re distracted…
“I’d take only what was really important. Let’s make a list, Dad.” – Sam, Packing for the Moon
Jessica Swift is a 24-year-old multidisciplinary artist from Bradford, England, who primarily works with with contemporary sculpture and abstract painting/mark making.
otherwise titled: “Another Exorcism”
or: “On some questions better left un-asked”
or even: “Bridge Burning”
Siblings wrestle with their departed grandmother’s pile of greeting cards that defy all nostalgia.
“This piece begins as non-fiction, a story of an experience I had after the explosive attacks on Gaza began in October. I swim to detach, to recenter, but in this instance I could not detach from another’s reality as they face a genocide.”
Inspired by the wildfires that have destroyed the 37% of the forests in Attica over the past 8 years, this is Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream but without the forests.
A pretentious existentialist Black writer turned romance writer looks for a platonic male muse on a dating app.
An adult entertainer finds freedom through a 60’s pop song
A man returns to an old ex’s apartment to collect his things.
“Liberty!” the voice is loud, booming like a thunderclap, sifting through the space you create. You groan, clutching your ears to stifle the cacophony. A hand taps you, but you fling it away like a pesky insect, trussing away from its owner. “Liberty, Papa says if he meet you here…” The words trail off as…
Theodoor Gabriella Grimes, known as ggggrimes, is a black non-binary artist based in Bronx, New York City. In a time that see the world growing with turmoil and hate, Grimes continues to create art that that serve as a safe space for queer people, trans people, people of colour, and all those who who might…
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