Informal rental housing is reshaping neighbourhoods across the global South. Drawing on research from Cape Town, this featured IDPR article explores how ‘soft densification’ can be better managed to support sustainable urban development. Free to read for a limited time.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing: an entire library full of it is perilous . . .
Terry Pratchett discusses the full range of Terry Pratchett’s writing, from Discworld to his equally successful, award-winning novels for children and the unrelated “stand-alone” novels. It explores Pratchett's development as a writer, showing how “story” – the narrative we build about ourselves and the world – can be both liberating and shackling. There are readers … Continue reading
40th anniversary of Catalan Review: Explore free‑to‑read articles from the archive
Founded in 1986, Catalan Review has played a leading role in shaping international scholarship on Catalan culture for four decades. In this anniversary post, Editor William Viestenz looks back on the journal's development and introduces a selection of archive articles chosen by the editorial team and available free to read for a limited time.
Home Ownership as the Locus of Horror.
Horror House Film analyses horror films – in different subgenres – in which the predominantly male drive for the possession of property and the exploitation of other people are brought together. It locates this pernicious aspect of modern culture in what Erich Fromm terms the being-is-having mode of human identity formation. An article by Jane … Continue reading
Archival Encounter: Editing Charles Olson’s The Special View of History, Revised and Expanded Edition
In this blog, John Faulise, the editor of The Special View of History: Revised and Expanded Edition examines how an archival encounter with the source materials at the Charles Olson Research Collection resulted in this new edition of Olson’s major statement on postmodern poetics. The need for a new edition of Charles Olson’s The Special … Continue reading
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