Articles

Arthur Aghajanian allows a Velázquez portrait to inspire a fascinating exploration of art, truth and contemplative stillness. “Then it was as if I suddenly…

Erik Eklund’s thought-provoking, engaging reflection on Nabokov’s controversial novel explains how Lolita reveals the “monstrosity of the self-conscious novel”, for the final article in our series…

Kelly Norris argues that the “generosity” and “love” in Kelly Yang’s Front Desk make it an appropriate novel for children to read as part of their…

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…

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…

Launching our exciting new series on banned books, Ewan Bowlby explains why Anne of Green Gables was banned in Soviet controlled Poland. If you…

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….

Elizabeth Dunbar reviews the Transept Interface exhibition.  The last three years of our lives have been full of undesired, inflicted boundaries – masks, screens, time…