By Sara Bright An object can survive for three thousand years. It can witness the fall of dynasties, the shifting of sands, the birth of…
There are artists who document their times, and there are artists who tear their work from the fabric of their own bodies. Tracey Emin has…
By Tessa Nolan A beauty pageant is never just about beauty. In its own strange, sequined way, it has always been a form of soft-power…
By Sara Bright When a figure as monolithic as Robert Redford passes, the instinct is to look back at the films. And why not? From Butch…
An awards show red carpet is rarely about the clothes alone. It is a text, written in silk and satin, jewels and jawlines. It is…
By Tessa Nolan In the carefully choreographed theatre of British royalty, the most radical act is not rebellion, but disappearance. To simply walk away, not…
By Alexander Stone Our modern quest for wellbeing has become a complicated, and often expensive, affair. We chase engineered supplements, bio-hack our sleep with wearable…
When Bram Stoker first unleashed Count Dracula upon the world in 1897, his epistolary novel was designed to terrify Victorian readers with its undercurrents of…
By Maria Bregman There are certain books we encounter in childhood that are less like stories and more like formative experiences. They imprint themselves upon…
By Alexander Stone There is a spectre haunting the modern workplace. It drifts through open-plan offices, lingers in the dead air of Zoom calls, and…