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Lessons from Scottish Schools

Lindsay Paterson discusses Scotland’s educational decline and the social inequality of attainment.

May 14, 2026
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John Singleton sits on a grey chair, with his hands resting on his legs. He is facing towards the right of the frame, listening to someone who is out of frame.

Q&A on ReFocus: The Films of John Singleton

Daniel Dufournaud reflects on the cultural impact of John Singleton, notably his portrayal of black masculinity.

Edinburgh University Press
August 19, 2025

Why Focus on Director Robert Altman’s Last Quarter Century?

by Lisa Dombrowski and Justin Wyatt Film director Robert Altman was one of the leading creative forces of the last great period of Hollywood filmmaking known as the New Hollywood or Hollywood Renaissance. Much critical analysis has addressed this early…

Daniel Miele
February 17, 2022

Lessons from Scottish Schools

Q&A on ReFocus: The Films of John Singleton

Why Focus on Director Robert Altman’s Last Quarter Century?

Lessons from Scottish Schools

Contesting Language in the Seventeenth Century—and Now

Q&A with Michelle Honeybun, author of “‘His Vest, I Perceive, Is But Padded with Cotton!”: John Bull in Cotton Famine Poetry during the American Civil War (1861–5)’

Diversity and the Physical Reality of the Late Roman World

Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of France