

GARY INDIANA'S INHUMAN COMEDY
An in depth-look at Gary Indian's trilogy of crime novels, Resentment, Three Month Fever, and Depraved Indifference.
Sep 214 min read
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Against Oblomov and Oblomovism
"Energy is Eternal Delight" William Blake I Oblomov, the eponymous anti-hero of Ivan Goncharov’s 1859 satirical novel,...
Jun 1911 min read
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‘Learn’d spew’: Ally Louks, opportunistic conformism, and the death of English studies
Pepe le Pew, a member of the marginalised skunk community, about to experience olfactory prejudice When Ally Louks created a Twitter storm after announcing on X that she’d passed her PhD with her thesis Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose, it gave outsiders a rare glimpse into postgraduate English studies in the UK. Based on the title alone, any criticism was unwarranted: it sounded innocuous enough, and potentially interesting, though no
Feb 2718 min read
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