New Critique

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Fiction: The Death of Cleopatra – Paul Murgatroyd
Fiction: Fall Like Nelson – Richard Barr
Thought and Judgement in the Works of Hannah Arendt and Hamlet – Oliver Deasy
METAPHYSICAL DETECTIVES: Guilt, Grace, and Gaze Throughout the World of Twin Peaks – Cam Scott
Fiction: ‘Dog Thieves’ – Nick Power
‘What’s Going On?’ The Moral Philosophy of A Serious Man – James McLoughlin
Fiction: ‘Gone Away Is The Bluebird’ – Chris Veasey
Flash Fiction: ‘Gloaming’ by Nick Power
Pankaj Mishra’s ‘Age of Anger’: A Review – Will Moffitt
Caché: Colonial Misappropriation or Postcolonial Masterpiece? – Joseph Barker
The Mediated ‘Marauder’ Movement: Networked journalism in the Gezi Park protests – Asligul Armagan
American Honey & The American Dream – Will Moffitt
Conforming to Type: Film as Subversion – Louis Armand
Putin’s Foundation Myth: Russian Memory and the Second World War – Joseph Barker
Ideology & The Comic Aesthetic: John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera – Josh Mcloughlin
Race, Ethnicity & Queer Theology – Tom Hillsdon
Francis Bacon & The Problem of Affect: Deleuze, Proust & Representation – Josh Mcloughlin
Making or Breaking the Nation?: A Brief History of Chinese Nationalism 1901-1949 – Joseph Barker
On Affinity – Charles Bliss
FICTION: ‘Homeless’ by Bart Van Goethem