Monthly Archives: July 2024

The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye

The United Kingdom seems to become a more and more transphobic place all of the time – fortunately, we have people like Shon Faye speaking with a voice of reason and compassion. Trans people are just ordinary people trying to … Continue reading

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Emma by Jane Austen

Emma is a novel that I’d heard about many times before I read it – always in the context of it having an unlikeable protagonists. The funny thing is, I didn’t find Emma unlikeable at all. Sure, she’s a flawed … Continue reading

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Doctor Who: The Betrothal of Sontar

This graphic novel collects together several comic adventures of the Tenth Doctor and Rose that were originally published in Doctor Who magazine between 2006 and 2007. It’s quite a nostalgic collection for me, because I read most of them when … Continue reading

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Far-right Appropriations of Medieval Military Orders by Rory MacLellan

I haven’t read an enormous number of academic papers before, but this was easily the most entertaining read of them all. Of course, I don’t want to suggest that it favoured entertainment over information, because it’s a well researched and … Continue reading

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