COVID poetry: how a new genre is helping readers to comprehend the pandemic: Research has shown that the UK read more during the pandemic. Ajdin Kamber/Shutterstock Research has shown that in the early months of the COVID pandemic people in the UK both reported reading more and used reading to cope with the anxieties brought …
Emo revival: why 2022 was the perfect time to bring the genre back from the dead: My Chemical Romance – mainstay alternative band of the Noughties – made a triumphant return in 2022 with new music and a reunion world tour. There was also the blockbuster Hella Mega Tour with Fall Out Boy, Weezer and …
Setting the record straight: Burna Boy didn’t create a music genre called Afrofusion: Burna Boy performs in Glastonbury, England, 2022. Joseph Okpako/WireImage via Getty Images Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu was born in 1991 in Port Harcourt, the largest city in Rivers State in Nigeria. He would become known as Burna Boy, a singer, songwriter and record …
Nosferatu at 100: how the seminal vampire film shaped the horror genre: Keith Corrigan / Alamy It’s the centenary of the cinema premiere of the German horror film Nosferatu. Now recognised as a classic of the silent era and one of the first examples of cinematic horror, it used elements of Gothic style to present …
Eden Lake and the British ‘hoodie horror’ genre: how they reinforced policies to demonise the working class: On Halloween 2008, James Watkins’ horror feature Eden Lake was released to little fanfare. A British take on the “backwoods” horror film (think Deliverance or Wrong Turn), it was just one of a swathe of low-budget horrors being …
African crime and detective fiction reshapes the genre: Alexis Huguet/AFP/Getty Images Crime and detective fiction continues to top bestseller lists across the world, spawning TV series and films. In the hands of African writers, though, the genre offers a particularly textured world view. That Ever-blurry Line Between Us and the Criminals: Re-Visioning Justice in African …
Ursula K Le Guin’s strong female voice challenged the norms of a male-dominated genre: Once and Future Podcast Hermaphrodite beings, dragon women, ambivalent utopias and sympathetic magic. Just a tiny taste of the fantasy and science fiction worlds created by Ursula K Le Guin, who has died at the ripe age of 88. Le Guin …