Thought
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The English Were Never Alone: Why Translation Mattered To Your Favourite Authors
‘The translator is almost more important to me than the author,’ says Linda Mohamed, a fiction commissioning editor at Faber…
The Quest for Open Access: Control in Public Institutions & Why It Matters
There are many treasures – both academic and artistic – kept well out of reach of the public, often for opaque reasons…
Guest Stars: The Influence of Fleeting Friendship
Life seldom adheres to order, especially in the theatre…
Youth Violence and Music in ‘The Nine’
While London gentrifies and bleaches the diasporic palate of the area, the East London drill scene is at the very least, transcribing our history...
The Sound of Secrecy: What's So Appealing about Vinyl?
Music is being exploited, used as a decoy to manipulate us. What becomes your ‘favourite’ song will be guided by tech giants if you let them...
War & Alchemy: The Story of Prussian Blue
The blue shade was synthesized accidentally in German scientist Johann Dippel’s laboratory, after he failed to alchemize gold...