In this poetic essay, artist Raju Rage looks at how the boundaries of gender, race, nationality and identity are constantly being crossed and conflated, making them far more complex than ...
SOUP is allowing for something to change, the barriers to be removed, the conversations to happen, to help a fellow human without a middle-man, and allowing for mistakes to happen. ...
I am thinking a lot about empathy these days – defensively, I might add – because my wife keeps accusing me of lacking this quality in relation to her. Of ...
Harry Waight ruminates on Boyhood – and how the film’s links to a naturalistic tradition have divided audiences. Continue Reading If Life Could Write: Thoughts on Boyhood
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“What makes me my kind of nerd is that I’m into everything… I stepped out of the magic circle and came to terms with the fact that my rules don’t ...
“They’re powerful things, the circles that games make… I think back to the circles that I made for myself, and even now, twenty years later, I am struck by the ...
As games continue to develop and refine their techniques, Berit Ellingsen considers the architectures that arise in them, and how they may influence us as players – and as human ...
“We taxi towards takeoff. As the 757’s engines churn, the passengers remain absolutely silent… The pilot breaks the silence after eleven minutes – the amount of time which elapsed before ...
“The fifth or sixth time I sprawl in the dirt the panic alarms are flashing extra bright. When my stomach stops looking for something to throw up I can raise ...
“I couldn’t move home, but maybe I could repay some of their kindness. I knew their stories of Christmas gifts that never arrived, and I knew their current interests. I ...
“I place the incense sticks on the earth in front of each trunk. Normally, I’d count to make sure that no tree gets any more or less. But ...
“When it all boils down, the most perfect example of dystopia, for me, is not to be found in literature, it’s to be found in film. One particular film, in ...
A new award for essay writing with a £15, 000 first prize has been announced. Named in honour of the master of the English essay, the William Hazlitt Essay Prize ...
Today we find out whether you are the one to be with us or not. It has been a terrible few days, full of worry and anxiety. I have hummed ...
The understanding I have of my grandparent’s lives is fake. It comes to me in Chinese whispers from biased observers. It sloshes around in my imagination until it seems to ...
Tara Isabella Burton on her search for a sense for belonging and an elegy for a rapidly disappearing city: “One of Saakashvili’s new visa schemes attracts Iranian tourists, enticing them ...
