

GARY INDIANA'S INHUMAN COMEDY
An in depth-look at Gary Indian's trilogy of crime novels, Resentment, Three Month Fever, and Depraved Indifference.
Sep 214 min read
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Against Oblomov and Oblomovism
"Energy is Eternal Delight" William Blake I Oblomov, the eponymous anti-hero of Ivan Goncharov’s 1859 satirical novel, is the living embodiment of inertia. He's widely considered to be the epitome of the ‘superfluous man’ of Russian literature of the 1840s and 1850s, but has none of the Byronism, glamour, or elegance of Turgenev’s Bazarov or Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin . A man in his thirties living in rooms in Petersburg with his manservant Zhakar and cook A
Jun 1911 min read
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‘Learn’d spew’: Ally Louks, opportunistic conformism, and the death of English studies
Pepe le Pew, a member of the marginalised skunk community, about to experience olfactory prejudice When Ally Louks created a Twitter storm after announcing that she’d passed her PhD with her thesis Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose, it gave outsiders a rare glimpse into postgraduate English studies in the UK. Based on the title alone, any criticism was unwarranted: it sounded innocuous enough, and potentially interesting, though not ori
Feb 2714 min read
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