Money, influence and heroism: the allure of political power in Kenya: A crowd witnesses Uhuru Kenyatta's swearing-in as Kenya's president after his re-election in 2017. Andrew Wasike/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images In recent years, the start of Kenya’s electioneering period has often been marked by a wave of resignations by men and women seeking high office as …
Rebecca and beyond: the creative allure of gothic Cornwall: Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca showcases the English county of Cornwall as a Gothic space of tumultuous waters, coarse moorlands, and perilous cliffs. Du Maurier’s Cornwall was a haunted place and the author was drawing upon a long tradition of seeing the …
Kanye for president: the dangerous allure of the celebrity politician: JOHN TAGGART / BLOOMBERG / POOL/EPA Rapper and sometime Trump supporter Kanye West has announced that he will be running for president of the United States. Without the tens of thousands of signatures needed to get on the ballot in all states or the backing …
The Strange Allure of Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski: Despite their lasting animosity, the two titans of New German Cinema produced a provocative and thought-provoking body of work together. From John Huston and Humphrey Bogart to Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio , cinema has regularly gifted us with fruitful director-actor partnerships. : Weird News Broward …
Kenyan voters need to resist the allure of voting for the usual suspects: Kenyan voters queue to cast their ballots during the 2013 general election. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters Fledgling democracies in Africa tend to experience cyclical radical shifts between democratic booms and the doldrums. This suggests that the democratisation process in some parts of the continent …
‘The OA’ and the hypnotic allure of weird TV: We're more likely to remember the peak TV era for its quantity than its quality, looking back on these years as a period in which there was too much to watch that was pretty good and fairly intriguing, but often got more buzz than it deserved. …