The Stand
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Credit: Pinterest ‘Men like it, and so it must be cosmically worthy’. This is the lament of Amy Dunne, in an early draft of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. She is criticising what to her appears to be the pointless conventions of American sports culture, and how in her eyes, the only reason people are expected to see ‘the poetry in sports’ is because it is something that predominantly men enjoy, and thus, is instantaneously granted cultural significance and authority. And alth

Anyone who’s put the radio on in the past decade will have noticed a growing trend in pop music: lyrics that are openly critical of men. From the likes of Sabrina Carpenter to Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo, much of their songs centre around criticising male behaviour - particularly in romantic relationships. The themes are familiar: emotional immaturity, infidelity and overall indifference. So, this raises a question: what has made female artists become so vocal about being

By Sabrina Stevenson Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” is, unfortunately, everything I thought it would be. (And yes, the quotation marks around the title are a non-negotiable addition made by Fennell, who claimed in an interview with Fandango it is not possible to adapt ‘a book as dense and complicated as Wuthering Heights ,’ so is instead making a ‘version of it.’) This quote alone confirmed my skeptical assumptions of the film based on the teaser back in September, w

For many of us at St Andrews, especially those outside the economics or management courses, the word finance conjures feelings of...