Making Madness Visible explores how societies have pictured insanity, from medieval fools to modern brain scans. Alvise Sforza Tarabochia shows how these images not only reflect but also shape ideas of madness, defining boundaries between sanity and insanity while questioning their stability across history and culture. For World Mental Health Day 2026, the author guides the reader through five images from their monograph, exploring how madness and mental health have been depicted historically.
The Moment of Trevor Griffiths’ Comedians: When Jokes Became Lead Pellets
Marking fifty years since the premiere of Trevor Griffiths’ Comedians, Stephen Wagg reflects on the changing role of comedy in modern society. He traces the rise of alternative comedy, the decline of a shared national comedy culture, and the growing influence of comedians in shaping political and social conversations.
Announcing our 2027 Pavilion Poetry collections
This National Poetry Day, we're thrilled to introduce our 2027 Pavilion Poetry collections: Question to the Creatures by Martha Sprackland, Tsvetaeva '27 by Sasha Dugdale, and Before & After the Night by Jemma Borg. The collections will publish in spring 2027 and can be preordered now from our website. Learn more about each of these … Continue reading
Revisiting Abercrombie’s ‘The Preservation of Rural England’ one hundred years on | Town Planning Review 97.5 Featured Article
The editors of Town Planning Review have selected 'Revisiting Abercrombie’s ‘The Preservation of Rural England’ one hundred years on', by Mark Scott, Nick Gallent and Menelaos Gkartzios. as the Featured Article from Volume 97.5. Explore both the landmark text and this new centenary reassessment side by side, free to read for a limited time.
What Can Translation Do?
In a new blog post to mark International Translation Day 2026, World Writing in French series editors Charles Forsdick and Martin Munro reflect on translation's role in sustaining linguistic and literary diversity, and ask an urgent question: what can translation do?
