Era Journal: UCL Arts and Culture

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February 20, 2025

An Interview with Christine Lai

NAT TOWNSEND talks to author Christine Lai about her recent debut, the boundary-crossing in her work, and the inspiration she draws from ruins.

November 9, 2024

Magic, Technic and Aura

Thoughts editor MEDI SMITH ruminates on the culture of “data-collecting”.

October 2, 2024

It was hotter last summer

A story by RORY PATRICK GRAHAM.

October 2, 2024

Amazon Laureate: Kevin Killian’s Selected Amazon Reviews

Literature editor ROMILLY SCHULTE reviews Kevin Killian’s Selected Amazon Reviews, tracking the “Top 100” reviewer’s ingenious subversion of style, form, and criticism.

September 27, 2024

13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips: On Overcoming Imperfection

OLIVER TSENG reviews Xiu Xiu’s latest release, 13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips.

June 27, 2024

Following all the strands of a story: If You’re a Girl by Ann Rower

GABRIELA BERNABEU reviews the revised and expanded edition of Ann Rower’s iconic If You’re a Girl: Selected Stories 1985-2023.

Recent

February 25, 2025

Freud’s Feminist Refurnishing: A review of Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists

Art & Design Sub-Editor RUBY LANGAN-HUGHES untangles the complex threads running through the Freud Museum's latest exhibition.

February 24, 2025

Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

MIEL PAEK recalls Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well, a recent exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

February 24, 2025

Piracy, Pedagogy and the Girlblogger: Reading Ester Freider’s I’m like a pdf but a girl

DARCY DUBELL discusses Ester Freider’s study of girlblogging as a radical discursive practice.

February 19, 2025

Words in Freedom: Breaking Lines at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

MADDY JOSEPH attends Breaking Lines: a dual exhibition of Futurism and the Origins of Experimental Poetry at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art.

February 19, 2025

Ecological soundscapes and technical brilliance: Vanessa Bedoret’s Eyes

ABIGAIL HUNT reviews Eyes, the debut album from musician Vanessa Bedoret.

February 18, 2025

Pop Culture’s Double Edge: A Review of LSFF’s Pop: Contagion, Infection, Revolution!

ABIGAIL HUNT attends the London Short Film Festival, looking back on Pop: Contagion, Infection, Revolution! at the ICA.

February 18, 2025

It’s Shakespeare, But Make It…

Theatre Sub-Editor AUDREY LAU talks reimaginings, revivals, and Dan Edge's production of Richard III at the Bridewell Theatre.

February 14, 2025

Temptation and Hypocrisy: Revisiting Simon of the Desert (1965)

EVA AMZEL-MATAS revisits Luis Buñuel's Simon of the Desert, exploring its enduring relevance sixty years after its original release.

January 30, 2025

On the Margins: A Review of Precarious Lease

EDGAR TATE reads Feldman’s account of Paris’ legendary Le Bloc.

January 27, 2025

To Game or Not To Game: Grand Theft Hamlet Review

ANEZKA KHAN reviews Grand Theft Hamlet (2024), a British documentary by Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane.

January 22, 2025

Fragments Along the Wake: A Review of Confessions by Catherine Airey

Literature Sub-Editor IRINE TENEISHVILI discusses undercurrent narratives and converging heritages in Catherine Airey’s forthcoming debut novel Confessions.

January 20, 2025

Something Like Glitter: On the Gaza Biennale

ALICE BUNNY NORTH reflects on the Gaza Biennale, set against the New Contemporaries at the ICA.