NYC Inc.: Emergent City review
Jamestown Properties, the Atlanta-based global behemoth responsible for One Times Square and Chelsea Market, takes a star turn as Robert Moses 2.0 in Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur...
Category: Non-fiction
The book that changed my mind – 12 experts share a perspective-shifting read
Mark Lorch, University of Hull; Alina Patelli, Aston University; Ana M Queirós, Plymouth Marine Laboratory; Anna Bedenk-Smith, University of Lincoln; Benjamin Curtis, Nottingham Trent University;...
6 books to give the nature-lovers in your life this Christmas
The pressure is on. You need to buy Christmas presents for everybody you love and, for some people, you are stuck. It’s an inevitable part of the season. If you know somebody who is fascinated by...
“She was simultaneously mentally ill and a run of the mill woman of her time”: Riefenstahl review
“For some things to be remembered other things must be forgotten”, we’re told in voiceover at the beginning of Riefenstahl, Andres Veiel’s riveting archival dive into the life of the titular...
The Biggest Loser: how an aggressive entertainment culture normalised body-shaming
Freya Gowrley, University of Bristol The Netflix documentary Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser raises questions around the ethics of one the most popular US reality TV series of the 2000s....
Lauryn Licari is still in danger: Unknown Number review
Netflix’s Unknown Number documentary recently introduced millions of viewers to a mom who catfished and harassed her own daughter, Lauryn, with text messages that varied from sexual harassment to...
“Both will linger darkly in your mind”: Dept Q and Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story reviews
The UK is a small island studded with secrets and secret lairs. I’m not just saying that because I grew up amidst American expanses and am honestly in awe of how the British maximize every square...
“Deeply frustrating and disturbing… and infinitely watchable”: Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders and A Deadly American Marriage
When it comes to true crime stories on Netflix, recent additions of Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders and A Deadly American Marriage both stood out to me recently, because they did something that few...
“Artists are complicated”: S/He is Still Her/e – The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary review
Even if you’re not familiar with the experimental art/music groups Throbbing Gristle or Psychic TV, the synopsis for David Charles Rodrigues’s S/He is Still Her/e - The Official Genesis P-Orridge...
“Part dictionary, part philosophical treatise”: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig
The English language has an estimated one million words, though many are gifts from other languages. The Eton Institute suggests that the average English speaker has a vocabulary somewhere between...