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

If you have been in a bookstore in the past few years, you have probably walked past a table with a sign that says ‘BookTok.’ The books on this table probably consist of a mix of romance books with cute cartoon covers and fantasy novels with complex symbols and dragons. BookTok, the reading subgenre of Tiktok, has changed the publishing industry. More and more, books are marketed by their ‘tropes’, and in my opinion, the quality of novels has drastically decreased. In 2020, d

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By Nicholas Davy Credit: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot Taylor Swift’s music soundtracked my adolescence. Therefore, it pains me to admit her...