History, Journals, Literature, Modern Languages, News, Political History, postcolonial studies, science fiction

Black History Month: The LUP Reading List

To mark Black History Month, we’ve put together a list of books and journal articles which provide new and critical insights into the area. Each article has been made Free to Read throughout October.

Literature, science fiction

Sport, Religio-Politics, and Science Fiction

Enticing you to read his most recent book, Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction by Derek J. Thiess, gave him a unique challenge. How does he get the buy-in of, primarily, academics on a project about sport—a subject that is largely viewed, especially in the humanities, as having little to do with the serious, intellectual … Continue reading

Film studies, Literature, science fiction

‘We all died more times than I can count.’ Reincarnation, Social Mobility and the Multiverse in the Netflix Originals Series The OA

David Sweeney discusses the Netflix Originals Series, The OA, in the context of reincarnation, social mobility and the multiverse, as well as questions that arose following the series. Death is not the end for Prairie Johnson in the Netflix Originals TV series The OA (2016-19); rather it creates the opportunity for her to travel to … Continue reading