Crossing the Tyne
O’ Calamity! Watch as another falls mindlessly among the maddening crowd. See the figures look down, locked ever in their ways.Take note.
Midsommar, Review: A Profound Reflection On Issues Of Mental Health
The idyllic Swedish countryside provides the perfect subversive setting for Ari Aster’s Midsommer, which sensitively plumbs feelings of helplessness that accompany extreme anxiety
The Art of the Body by Alex Allison, Review
Alex Allison’s debut novel is a multi-layered exploration of the able and disabled body, diving deep into what care work is like today
The Dead Don’t Die, Review: An Ambitious But Tediously Unsubtle Zom-Com
Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die is an ambitious but ultimately ineffective satirical zom-com, which fails to make the most of its impressive ensemble cast
There There by Tommy Orange, Review
In his debut, Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel There There, Tommy Orange shows the injustice of reducing an entire community to a stereotype
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by The Rubbish Shakespeare at Ordsall Hall, Review
The Rubbish Shakespeare Company demand raucous laughter, cheers and jeers in their kid-friendly production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Remembering Ourselves: The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forché, Review
The reissuing of Carolyn Forché’s The Country Between Us brings to light the parallels between our present day and the violence of El Salvador from four decades ago
STONECHILD, Jesca Hoop, Review
With STONECHILD, the ever-unpredictable Jesca Hoop has created an album that lingers in the mind long after the closing bars
SPEAK: Salon, A New Space For Poetry In The North East
Durham’s Speak: Salon provides a welcome celebration of poetry in the North East
Google+: A Quiet Death Or A Subtle PR Move?
The rise and demise of Google+ may have passed by unnoticed, but the lack of concern shown by big tech towards their consumer’s privacy is still disconcerting