Termed the ‘second brain’, our bodies have a completely separate nervous system, which carries 500 million neurons and stretches to nine meters, from oesophagus to anus. Historically thought to be for controlling digestion, the enteric […]
Travel | New Years Eve in New York
A far cry from my usual New Year’s Eve celebrations, which tend to consist of going to my local high street and making a fool out of myself whilst fuelled by Jägerbombs and kebabs, I […]
Books | The Flamethrowers
If I’m completely honest, when I first picked up The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner I was all set for a tale about a crack military squad systematically offing bad guys by burning them to a […]
New York, New York
If you weren’t at Leeds Town Hall yesterday you missed a treat! For the first time in twenty five years, two societies combined to stage an ambitious and exciting afternoon of musical delights. LUU Music […]
Classic of the Week: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
‘They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented’: Lottie Brown is thrown into the conventions of 70s New York society […]