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A woman and man look apprehensively at the sky.

‘Twisters’ alludes to real-life dangers of chasing storms

Jack L. Rozdilsky, York University, Canada

Deadpool and Wolverine in a fight

Deadpool & Wolverine is fun for die-hard Marvel fans – but it won’t save the MCU

John Quinn, University of the West of Scotland

Pandemic effects linger, and art invites us to pause and behold distance, time and trauma

Julian Jason Haladyn, OCAD University

A man standing looking at a wall of hearts.
Re-reading Alice Munro in the light of the secrets she kept and pain she caused

Carrie Dawson, Mount Saint Vincent University

A woman's eyes seen behind a book.
Summer reading: 4 books on well-being that you can rely on

Joanna Pozzulo, Carleton University

A woman in a hammock with a book.
Kafka at 100: Rawi Hage’s brilliant ‘Cockroach’ invited some comparison to ‘The Metamorphosis’

Brittany Kraus, Dalhousie University

Torso of a man attached to the body of an insect.

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Film & TV

Girls standing on a porch surveying space and smiling.

‘Decolonizing Lens’: Winnipeg and virtual film series reflects the beauty of Indigenous worldviews

Jocelyn Thorpe, University of Manitoba and Kaila Johnston, University of Manitoba

In Donald Sutherland’s 1970s career, the personal and political met in European ‘auteur’ films

Jean Walton, University of Rhode Island

A man in tuxedo smiling.
Caitlin Cronenberg’s ‘Humane’: Dystopian satire questions ecological disaster and compassion

Chris Corker, York University, Canada

A man and woman in suit jackets with a television image of a forest fire behind them.
From stereotypes to sovereignty: How Indigenous media makers assert narrative control

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation; Dannielle Piper, The Conversation, and Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation

Man wearing olive green jacket side hugs a woman wearing a brown-colored trench coat.
In India, film and social media play recurring roles in politics

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation

A movie poster shows a woman holding an automatic rifle. A man walks beside the film poster.
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Language, reading & writing

‘Whatchamacallit’, ‘gizmo’ and ‘thingamajig’: what we say when we can’t find the right word – and why

Ursula Kania, University of Liverpool

Illustration of a woman searching her mind for a word.
Women’s prize for fiction 2024: six expert reviews of the shortlisted books

Bethany Layne, De Montfort University; Ankhi Mukherjee, University of Oxford; Atef Alshaer, University of Westminster; Fiona Woollard, University of Southampton; Orlaith Darling, Trinity College Dublin, and Sally O'Reilly, The Open University

A stack of books on a table outside.
Representing Gaza: Artists are using social media-based comics as resources and resistance

Amy Mazowita, Concordia University

A group of crescent moons against a dark night sky. Each of the moon's has the face of a murdered Palestinian, and the moons appears to be wrapped in white cloth. The ruins of Gaza are spread on the ground below.
Think tech killed penmanship? Messy handwriting was a problem centuries before smartphones

Misha Teramura, University of Toronto

The bottom half of a page of a letter in the handwriting of Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabeth’s signature is visible in the bottom right corner of the letter. The paper, now tan colored, is inscribed in brown ink. The text gets increasingly compressed towards the bottom of the letter. There are several creases on the page, suggesting how the letter may have been folded when originally sent.

Fashion & style

Fast fashion is harming our planet — these 4 tips can help you build a more sustainable wardrobe

Maryse Côté-Hamel, Université Laval

People dance in front of a store front.
West Africa’s fashion designers are world leaders when it comes to producing sustainable clothes

Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

A young woman stands at a waterfront pool with an arm on her hip, posing in an outfit of shiny green with pink African fabric contrasting it on the collar and skirt.
10 years after the Rana Plaza collapse, fashion has yet to slow down

Verena Gruber, EM Lyon Business School and Marie-Agnes Parmentier, HEC Montréal

10 years after the Rana Plaza collapse, fashion has yet to slow down
On-demand fashion gives much-needed clues on how to green notoriously wasteful industry

Valérie Moatti, ESCP Business School

On-demand fashion gives much-needed clues on how to green notoriously wasteful industry

Music

The science behind Ariana Grande’s vocal metamorphosis

Lydia Kruse, Purdue University

Young woman dressed in billowing white gown sings while backup dancers surround her.
Brenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation

Mbali Mazibuko, University of Johannesburg

A black and white photo of a woman singinging her heart out into a microphone on stage, her braided hair in pigtails, her eyes shut. She's down on her haunches.
Prodigy’s personal mythology: Remembering the ‘fallen angel’ of Mobb Deep

Marcus Evans, McMaster University

Two Black men pose for a photo on a sidewalk.
The triumph of vinyl: Vintage is back as LP sales continue to skyrocket

Josh Greenberg, Carleton University

A hand seen flipping through records and the word 'midnights' is seen on one album.

Exhibits & visual culture

An artist has stolen a coin from the British Museum as part of a performance piece – but is the artwork ethical?

Claire Isabella Gilmour, University of Bristol

Hand holding a coin
National Gallery 200: Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo’s Mary Magdalene is a powerful piece of storytelling

Gabriele Neher, University of Nottingham

Mary Magdalene in a silver cloak
Artists bring human richness at times of strife — and need to be allowed to speak about the Israel-Hamas war

Lowell Gasoi, Carleton University

A person with umbrella seen in front of a building with wide steps and many glass panes that says Art Gallery of Ontario.
Seeing histories of forced First Nations labour: the ‘Nii Ndahlohke / I Work’ art exhibition

Mary Jane Logan McCallum, University of Winnipeg and Julie Rae Tucker

A scultpture installation seen on a gallery wall showing various objects in the shape of a cross with objects related to manual labour alongside the horizontal axis, such as a saw, pitchfork, washing board and scissors.