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Interview with Maggie Humm
Read more: Interview with Maggie HummMaggie Humm reflects on feminist criticism, life-writing, and Virginia Woolf’s influence.
OLR 40th Anniversary – Ann Smock
Welcome to the not-so-sunny days of August where, in the perpetual spirit of celebrating OLR’s 40th anniversary, we are sharing…
Shining the spotlight on British cinema’s female stars
Britain has long had a contradictory relationship to movie stardom, as two articles from the fan magazine Picturegoer, both by…
Celebrating 70 Years of the Edinburgh International Festival
An extract from The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain by Angela Bartie On Sunday 24 August 1947,…
Art, Literature and the Multilingual Spaces of post-Brexit Democracy
The notion of “sovereignty” has been made central to the debate heading toward Brexit, but what does it mean? Does…
George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination
What do you imagine when you think about great Catholic art? Perhaps you call to mind the gilded pages of…
Scottish Migration Since 1600
Migration today is an increasingly contentious, even toxic, issue. It is being held responsible for Brexit, the coming to power…
Top 10 Modernist Manifestos from Britain and Ireland
During the early 20th century avant-garde countries like France, Italy, Russia, and Germany provided fertile ground for manifesto writing: Dada,…
Living Modernly’s Living Quickly: A Note on Travelling Light
By Emily Ridge He who travels light is in a fair way to travel happily. But the happy state is…
Chastity and Capitalism, from Shakespeare’s England to Trump’s America
By Katherine Gillen Interest in Shakespeare’s economic philosophy intensified in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, reaching beyond academic circles…