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Who needs advice?
Read more: Who needs advice?Margaret Mullett investigates advice literature from Byzantine texts to modern self-help culture.
Introducing Critiquing Gender and Islam: Transnational, Intersectional and Queer Perspectives
by Nadje Al-Ali & Kathryn Spellman Poots It has been over 10 years that we have seen uprisings in the…
‘Everything that wriggles’: The Muriel Spark Archives
By James Bailey ‘I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends’, wrote Spark in her 1992 autobiography,…
Four Irish Persephones
By Virginie Trachsler The young Persephone is gathering flowers in a meadow when her uncle Hades, god of the underworld,…
Democracy, Workers’ Councils, and Political Thought: What Can We Learn from Events?
When I first grappled with the questions that would in time turn into my Edinburgh University Press book Visions of Council Democracy: Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt...
Remembering Sarah Kofman in the 2020s?
By Jacob Bates-Firth Sarah Kofman and the Relief of Philosophy (ed. Bates-Firth and McKeane) is out now as a special…
In memory of Professor Richard Sharpe FBA, FSA, FRHistS, Hon. MRIA
17 February 1954 to 21 March 2020 By John Reuben Davies (Editor, The Innes Review) A year has now passed…
10 Beats of The Pulse in Cinema
By Sharon Jane Mee and Bill Hunt [Content Note: This post contains shots from films depicting blood and gore] One…
Flawed Crystals: Muriel Spark’s Ways of Seeing
‘How do you do it? I am dazzled’, enthused Evelyn Waugh in a letter to Muriel Spark in 1960. Spark’s…
Young people and activism
By Niall Nance-Carroll Young people are a coveted demographic in politics, and they are increasingly shaping both the message and…