As someone who finished her undergraduate degree in the spring of 2020, I found a lot I could relate to in Catherine Prasifka’s début, None of This Is Serious (2022). The mysterious crack is in fact the weakest element … Continue reading Review: None of This Is Serious by Catherine Prasifka
Originally Published in Print, December 2021. Last month, Robert Kolker published an article in the New York Times Magazine. ‘Who is the Bad Art Friend?’ outlined a tangled saga of passive-aggressive email exchanges and a short story plagued by ongoing … Continue reading Bad Art Friends
Originally published in print, September 2021. Illustration by Linde Vergeylen. Picture the scene: Oxford brogues on cobblestones, a brown leather satchel stuffed with classic European novels, turtlenecks and blazers underneath the melancholic gloom of autumnal skies. It is, in … Continue reading “A morbid longing”: Dark Academia and The Secret History