Verfreundungseffekt: Engaging with German-speaking culture
Interview with Jen Calleja, founder of Anglo-German arts and ethnography magazine Verfreundungseffekt.
Social Comment
Comparing depression to cancer doesn’t help anyone
A simple diagnosis of depression as a matter of “brain chemistry” can render the complex politics of daily life irrelevant.
Meeting the Ex. We all have to face it at some point
Few experiences are more awkward. Why does it usually happen when we’re at Tesco’s in our pyjama bottoms with no make up on?
Current Affairs
Border Children: A Refugee Crisis
The UN has recommended that the mass of children entering the US from Central America points to a refugee crisis.
Time for constitutional change on abortion in Ireland
Ireland needs a constitutional change to empower women and finally end the long story of condemned abortion.
Capital Punishment: Two wrongs don’t make a right
The US in 2014: There is no morality in a form of justice which finds legality in killing human beings in the pretext of obtaining that justice.
Art & Photography
Music & Film
Writing
(On Gainful Employment)
recipe / for disaster’s nubile suburbian clatters / where everything counts and nothing quite matters.
Daniel Kehlmann’s new novel F fails to convince
A disappointing mix of flat postmodern irony and meaningless intellectual banter.
Speak of Trash (Pt. 1)
Flowers dont mean nothing / Speak of trash / But don’t say flowers mean nothing / Daisies on mind