Featured Non-fiction essays
I know you are but what am I
In the proliferation of discourses and identities online, critique is often shadowed by its double: conspiracy. In this review, James Ley situates Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger within the re-emergence of the ‘paranoid style’ in American politics.
Non-fiction
I know you are but what am I
In the proliferation of discourses and identities online, critique is often shadowed by its double: conspiracy. In this review, James Ley situates Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger within the re-emergence of the ‘paranoid style’ in American politics.
Everything Is Somehow Alike
Kyle Chayka’s Filterworld proposes to examine what happens to aesthetic experience in a culture dominated by algorithms. Reviewing Chayka’s book, Catriona Menzies-Pike finds its solutions flawed yet indicative of our wider structural blindspots.
Pick Your Pattern
From recycled textiles to photosynthetic sweaters, fashion has ostensibly committed itself to sustainability. But is it more than a passing trend? Reviewing Clare Press’ Wear Next, Carody Culver considers the complexities of both defining fashion and imagining the industry’s future.
Selling Tales, Telling Sales
Since the 1980s, fiction has become big business. In her review of Dan Sinykin’s wide-ranging study of American publishing, Alice Grundy argues for the importance of the demythologising effects of Sinykin’s institutionalist approach for both literary scholarship and industrial relations.