Category: Essays

3 March, 2013

Charles Nixon

Variations on Wallace

Charles Nixon finds too many faults in the latest posthumous collection of David Foster Wallace's writing.


4 February, 2013

Dominic Davies

Gripping the Prison Bars

Dominic Davies looks into the extraordinary work and the intolerable circumstances of the nobel prize-winning poet Liu Xiaobo.


Jared Spier

Lance Armstrong Still Hasn’t Come Clean

After decades of deception, Jared Spier explains why fans of cycling and of clean sport deserve more.


31 January, 2013

Gabriel Roberts

Grammar Gripes



21 January, 2013

David Shook

The Prophet of Rebola: In Memoriam Bosquete POP

David Shook remembers Equatorial Guinea, and the artist Bosquete POP.


16 December, 2012

Christy Edwall

Snow-Blindness

Christy Edwall braves Arctic conditions to explore Adam Gopnik's essays on Winter.


7 December, 2012

Matthew Perkins

Letter from Japan: Theatre in Fukuoka



6 June, 2012

Shivani Radhakrishnan

Masscult and Midcult



27 February, 2012

Alexander Bubb

A Smooth Transition

Alex Bubb meditates on the history of the landscape surrounding the Windsor to Slough railway line.


28 November, 2011

Stephen Hussey

The Divided Shelf

Christopher Hitchens' Arguably collects over 600 pages of comment and reportage from an unquiet contrarian.