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“What happens if the performer gets hard?” It’s New Year’s Day and as part of my annual tradition I’m at the Royal Academy, this time seeing the Marina…
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Danger is coming...
Hot or Not 2024
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January 2023

Pro-Anna: Allie Rowbottom’s Aesthetica is the final nail in Instagram’s coffin
London is unusually warm in mid-October, the undercroft at Southbank a sea of bare-chested skaters in various forms of undress practising flips…
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December 2022

Oblivion, or A New Future Begins
Coverage Report 11-12/2022: The end of an era
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Stripped, with torrents of blood
Coverage Report 10/2022: Anniversaries, adaptations and archives but crucially no Standard bangs
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October 2022

Dirt chic
Coverage Report 09/2022: Sex in the time of a monarch's demise
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September 2022

I'm back, are you happy now?
Coverage Check 08/2022: Fashion flops, literary resurgences, the return of white vests and boxer shorts
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Philippa Snow is a hot mess
I’ve long forgotten how I first discovered the paralysing talent of Philippa Snow. Every time I think I’ve cracked it, I come across something even…
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May 2022

January 2022

Drama is an author’s best friend (especially when they lack a fashion sense!)
Coverage Report 12/2021: Mariah Kreutter laments the loss of cruel women writers as Bryan Karetnyk resurrects the Russian Proust
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December 2021

Young Male Novelists, Endangered Species
Coverage Check 10-11/2021 (Part II/II): Bland sex scenes and bad interviews
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Twink No Mo
Coverage Check 10-11/2021 (Part I/II): Black Mountain Institute axes The Believer as Sam and Gian pull the plug on the revolution
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