Important, thought-provoking questions about the value of “bad” art, in the next article in our series on banned books. As an undergraduate studying Comparative Literature, banned books were often on my reading lists. The most memorable of the these for…
James Smoker argues that The Handmaid’s Tale is not “detrimental to Christian values” but an important challenge to corrupted religious power, in the next installment of our new series on banned books. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is one of the great literary comebacks…
Launching our exciting new series on banned books, Ewan Bowlby explains why Anne of Green Gables was banned in Soviet controlled Poland. If you were compiling a list of novels banned for being dangerous and encouraging dissent, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s…
Giulia Privitelli explores our “restless search” for beauty through Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince and the tragedy of Narcissus and Echo. ‘What a queer planet!’ he thought. ‘It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding. And the people have…
Elizabeth Dunbar reviews the Transept Interface exhibition. The last three years of our lives have been full of undesired, inflicted boundaries – masks, screens, time limits, bookings, cancellations, lockdowns. Yes, most of us have survived it but we have all been…
Author Ewan Bowlby reflects on writing a short story in collaboration with illustrator Karlee Rene, for the next of our series of artist reflections highlighting the Transept Interface exhibition. What does it mean for a piece of writing to be illustrated?…
Visual artist Julia MacLaurin describes how researching family history led her to create her artwork Honouring My Ancestors, continuing our series of artist reflections highlighting the Transept Interface Exhibition I have spent time looking into my family history in detail and now…
Dan Drage explains how his artwork for the Transept ‘Interface’ exhibition takes its place in ‘an always-already messy world’ that is ‘storied, lively and spirited’, in the next instalment of our series of artist reflections highlighting the ‘Interface’ exhibition. I begin…
Magda Andrews-Hoke describes how composing her poem Throughline helped her to ‘understand time and crisis’ during the pandemic, in the latest of our series of artist reflections connected to the Transept ‘Interface’ exhibition. When I was considering how to approach the theme of…