Culture
Literature
INTERVIEW- Pamela Druckerman sneaks to the left
November 15th, 2009Josh Dresner
"Playing away? Having a bit on the side?” These are common enough phrases to describe a bit of infidelity. But the Dutch “go strange” the Swedes “Sneak to the left” and the Israelis ‘’eat on the side”. [Full Article]
The unfortunate B.S Johnson
November 15th, 2009Mark yates
Numerous literary phenomena are forgotten with every passing decade. Authors once celebrated for innovations in the field of literature now falter in the face of republication. [Full Article]
REVIEW- C. J Sansom's latest historical novel
November 15th, 2009Callum Mcleod
Sansom meticulously depicts Tudor London to create an atmospheric and fascinating context in which the action takes place. [Full Article]
STORYTIME- Little Red Riding Hood
November 15th, 2009Dan Starkey
The suffragettes fought and died for womens rights, Emily Wilding Davidson walked out in front of the kings horses at Epsom, bombs in post boxes, all for nothing it seems as we teach our young that women are defenceless, and subjected to Male whims. [Full Article]
REVIEW- Dave Eggers' new novel
November 8th, 2009Joey Connolly
An everyday morning in the Student Direct: Mancunion office, uncoloured by novelty or pleasure; hours of essaying in John Rylands to look forward to; and a slump towards another packed lunch furtively eaten in the Veggie Cafe – but –– wait! What’s this in the literature inbox? The new book by Dave Eggers – oh my, oh my, delight of delights! [Full Article]
REVIEW- One day is an amazing love story
November 8th, 2009Naomi Brandon
When I looked this book up on the Amazon website, I found an astonishing number of rave reviews with exclamation marks galore. ‘THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ!!’ the ‘ultimate zeitgeist love story’ [Full Article]
REVIEW- Lacan for beginners
November 4th, 2009Dan Brookes
The complex idioms Lacan engages with are difficult enough for people outside the iPod generation, let alone those of us trapped within it. [Full Article]
REVIEW- Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
October 12th, 2009Ljeta Putane
This novel is more of a feeling than anything else. Feeling of coldness, blinding whiteness and some fantastic warmness in between the two. [Full Article]
New Writing
An Essay on Criticism
October 26th, 2009Joey Connolly
Alright, then. A few weeks in and a few issues out, and the New Writing section is ticking along rather nicely. The chances are, if you’re reading this, that you’ve seen something nice over the previous weeks, and have returned in search of more. But it’s always possible, I suppose, [Full Article]
We Were Dancers
October 26th, 2009Rhona Ezuma
Baby, we’re dancers We got that right rhythm That beep bop to the Django Shim Sham down the revue. That’s a beat so special Something spiritual As the tempo slips And our humps bump And your strong hands catch me From a peek toed pirouette. In African pant paces Lets [Full Article]
The Movies, They Lie To You
October 26th, 2009Frances Connor
The movies. They lie to you, you know. What did I expect when I told you I loved you? An orchestral wall of crescendoing violins, a soft-lit montage of moonlight and summer, a falling of the curtain as the story folds gently away, a standing ovation from the gods? Or that other answer. Tragedy and desperation, sobbing in the rain, thunder, lightening, darkness? No, when I told you that I loved you there was awkward silence, chewed tongues mumbled retraction and fumbled reconciliation and beans on toast for tea.
Agamemnon
October 26th, 2009John North
My heart has been stolen By a prancing puff of a boy, Its tendons cut like moorings, Its thick meat squeezed Like a lump of clay - It throbs, desperately, Like a rabbit’s hide in the fist of a noose. What am I left with? A lad Clutching a sore [Full Article]
April Showers
October 26th, 2009The macadam shimmers and slides like oil in a hot spoon as drops from the tap in the sky collide into echoes forming momentary crowns of iridescent splash on the surface of murky transparency. The Sun’s light seeps through the soggy clouds: paints all beneath it in a shade of [Full Article]
The Dusk Before The Day
October 26th, 2009Kayleigh Lambert
It was beautiful, a moonlit sky streaked with golden Tears, not quite My own, but always there, wonders Never ageing with the years, lost To most. Underneath this light, I fell alone, although there, beside Me, Prisoners of Ineffability, not Speaking, scared to break the spell Frightened of my actuality, [Full Article]
Abiogenisis
October 26th, 2009Doran Khamis
There is a sculpture of a man. He has evolved through hammer, chisel, art. Through each his stony feet and hands there bubbles life that flows from stony heart. And grinding diaphragm I hear, as from a baby’s gravel-pit first breath; a wheezing boulder overture: the sculptor Darwin’s banishment of death.
Wrong Turn
October 26th, 2009Doran Khamis
Beautifully burnt tinderbox boy - he returns his top-hat to the coat rack, never once touching his sore, red scars. He cries out for socialism to take his shoe-shine hands to a lump of coal. He doesn’t need pushing, just pulling. Full of fear, he can sleep, shivering. More than [Full Article]
Arts
My Life In Arts with Charlotte Newson
March 7th, 2010Grace Cahill
Charlotte Newson is a Manchester-based artist who has been commissioned by the City Council to produce a portrait of the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. [Full Article]
The University of Manchester Music Society
March 7th, 2010Laura Jones
Passionate, inspiring and professional, the University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra presented a rousing portrayal of nineteenth-century music, with a newly commissioned work by PhD student David Onac showing that compositional mastery still lives on. [Full Article]
CLASSICAL MUSIC- BBC Philharmonic with Hakan Hardenberger and HK Gruber
March 7th, 2010Michal Kniec
Few orchestras can combine the music of 20th century giants like the BBC Philharmonic. Coming from various backgrounds, the night was an exploration of the dexterity and skill needed to play these works. [Full Article]
La Bohème
March 7th, 2010Christina Gregory, Arts Editor
Opera North exceeded all expectations with their first class production of Puccini’s celebrated opera, La Bohème. [Full Article]
An Interview with Steve Gullick
March 7th, 2010Christina Gregory, Arts Editor
Steve Gullick, probably the world’s finest music photographer and a name you’re familiar with if you’ve ever read NME. [Full Article]
CLASSICAL MUSIC- Russian Masterpieces
March 4th, 2010Michal Kniec
The Hallé’s Russian Masterpieces concert brilliantly displayed some of the countries greatest musicians, linking them under the banner of nationalism and romanticism. [Full Article]
THEATRE- Blue Remembered Hills
March 4th, 2010Melody Nairn
Set during World War II, Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills follows a group of seven-year-olds one summer afternoon as they play in the forest of Dean, but their childish games turn sour as one child, Donald, is accidentally burnt to death in a fire. [Full Article]
Die Fledermaus
March 1st, 2010Laura Jones
Critically acclaimed for their comedic talent, Opera della Luna do not disappoint in their dazzlingly witty and utterly refreshing production of Die Fledermaus. [Full Article]
