editors-picks

We all know that technology is developing rapidly in our lifetime. Even ten years ago few of us could have predicted that we would be carrying around touchscreen computers more powerful than the bulky desktops of the day in our pockets.…

My favourite author was a topic I never used to discuss that often. People would list off great names such as Joyce, Dickens, Tolkien, Hemingway, or Twain, and have heated debates about great pieces of literature that I have never read. I…

Orson Welles is being feted anew for the centenary of his birth, and he even projected his personality from beyond the grave with the 2013 publication of My Lunches with Orson. Peter Biskind edited the long-neglected tapes of Welles’ weekly…

None of the plays attributed to Shakespeare were written by Shakespeare. We know this. It’s fact. The earth revolves around the sun, 2+2=4, Shakespeare was a disgusting fraud.  These are the foundations upon which civilisation is built.…

At Sea I’m watching a film. There’s a scene at the end where the leading lady gets into her car and drives. The camera, a bird’s eye view of highways and roads follows her progress until the journey slows curves along the edge of…

Let’s get one thing straight before we start; fuck Dickens. Just kidding! I’ve got nothing against Charlie. You go Glen Coco! As a teen, and as a struggling literature graduate, I found writers like Dickens to be immensely stuffy,…

“If I really thought I was famous, I’d top myself.” - Amy Winehouse, 2007 Amy, Asif Kapadia’s documentary on singer Amy Winehouse, is a brutal and heartbreaking glimpse into the short life of one of the greatest singers of our…

Sunday, June 14, 15 Hi all, Greetings from the stunning campus of Ohio University, Athens Ohio. I’m here because this is the host site for the International Space University’s annual Space Studies Programme, a 9 week intensive…

After the #hangoverforequality ended, my scientific curiosity rebooted and I wondered why I cried so much over the weekend? I wasn’t sad, I was delighted! I was ecstatic! In Leo Varadkar's words, I was part of a social revolution.…

So by now you've probably heard all about the Lacomic Cup, our world cup of very brief comic fiction. You've probably heard that you need to write a funny story of between 250-300 words which ends with the same word, phrase or sentence that…