Wildest Dreams: The Pervasive Irony of Taylor Swift’s 1989
I can honestly say that I liked Taylor Swift since she became cool. I am in the deepest and truest …
I can honestly say that I liked Taylor Swift since she became cool. I am in the deepest and truest …
This week I’ve been wallowing in irrelevance. Nothing new there, then. But teaching a course on literature and popular culture …
“Chav” is a tricky term to pin down, but the very disagreement over its origins is revealing. Some insist it …
Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty is an astonishing work. Witty, trashy, sexy and unsettling, it rewrites the classic narrative to produce …
I found my allotted space near the top of the Royal Opera House and began the ancient English ritual of …
Rhian E. Jones is a historian and commentator on politics, music and pop culture. Her book Clampdown: Pop-cultural Wars on …
I’m very cheered to announce that I’ve just joined the team over at Bad Reputation, the popular culture and gender …
I’ve been recapping the TV show Merlin over at California Literary Review, and one of the things I’m most often …