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“Convenience Store Woman”: perspectives on deviation and conformity within the Japanese psyche

by Madeleine Ridout October 28, 2020October 28, 2020
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Eating French to be French

by Ben O'Brien October 7, 2020October 7, 2020
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Peonies: consuming otherness

by Wei Kai Ng October 6, 2020July 18, 2021
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Kae Tempest’s ‘On Connection’: A Review

by Max Spokes October 4, 2020October 4, 2020
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The world in your head: A review of Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

by Lily Down September 28, 2020July 18, 2021
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Up for audition – can audiobooks compete with the written word?

by Tom Martland September 24, 2020September 24, 2020
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The Lockdown Diet: Fictional Worlds Ready-Made

by Declan Nelson September 24, 2020July 18, 2021
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Too Much Reality?!: Why technology is absent from literature

by Katharine Spurrier September 18, 2020September 18, 2020
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“I sconce anyone who only got into Oxford because they are black”, an Interview with Barrister Alexandra Wilson.

by Oscar H Robins September 8, 2020September 8, 2020

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