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Tag Archives: Penned in the Margins

Rebecca Tamás – Witch

April 2, 2019

On Friday the 21st August, 1829, The Times reported on the case of Jean Sabathé. His child was gravely ill. …

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Theatre of Blood – Chris McCabe’s Speculatrix

April 6, 2015

Oxford’s Golden Cross is a Pizza Express now but the interior decor points to its Tudor pedigree. Outside, the square …

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Almost Lost My Mind – Melissa Lee-Houghton’s Beautiful Girls

December 30, 2013

In London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd writes that ‘London drives some of its citizens mad. A psychiatric survey in the …

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Please mind the gap – Hannah Silva’s Forms of Protest

December 22, 2013

How I willed Waterloo’s departures board to cascade into its flipping and clacking, although it was impossible to tell whether that first flip …

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Beautiful Strange – Chrissy Williams’ Flying Into the Bear

April 16, 2013

It’s just easier to think in shorthand. Certain brands – political, commercial, or artistic, trigger knee-jerk reactions of love, or …

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The Real Thing – Booksellers, not retail sales assistants

March 29, 2013

Today’s Guardian reports that Amazon Marketplace is hiking its fees up for third-party traders. In a piece published in the same …

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And God Created Woman – Stephanie Leal’s Metrophobia

February 4, 2013

As the Authorized Version of the Bible came off the press in 1611, the poet, Aemilia Lanyer, was not prepared …

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The whole of the moon – Where Rockets Burn Through, edited by Russell Jones

January 28, 2013

In the days when video games were packaged in cassette boxes, their lurid covers promised adolescents the sort of ultra-violence …

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For the poor and beaten down – David Caddy’s Man in Black

October 24, 2012

Perhaps the little black dress epitomises haute couture because black is the perfect foil for a dirty great swag of …

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Liberating constraints – Tom Chivers’ Adventures in Form

September 25, 2012

Reporting back from the Edinburgh International Book Festival, George Szirtes quotes Jackie Kay: “Why do novelists so fear the death of …

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