Bites
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Hamnet: A Sea of Troubles
Artwork by Guido Maza (2026) Despite robust fan-fare and pre-emptive award ceremony capture, Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet seems now to be attracting a puzzling yet steady stream of online ire. The range of circumspectly approving discourse and acumen has given way to something more uneasy and polemical. To be sure, this movie has at made its…
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Technicolour Victoriana: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein
Artwork by Josse Mansilla (2025) Del Toro’s reimagining of Mary Shelley’s modern myth begins by going back to its source material. A Danish ship is stuck in the Arctic Circle on an expedition to the North Pole. The injured Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) is found near-dead on the ice, pursued by the Creature (Jacob Elordi),…
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Who’s Afraid of Judith Butler?
Carmen Vintro on Judith Butler: Who’s Afraid of Gender? at the Southbank Centre, in conversation with Ash Sarkar.
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Whimsy and Wonder
Kiana Rezakhanlou on Daniel McKay’s Whimwondery: An Alphabetarium of Useful Nonsense Inventions
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Posing on a Penis: Jake Wood at the Fitz
Ollie Jakes on Jake Wood, bodybuilding, and performance art
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The Camera 