A Naked Industry

By Aaron Grierson Entertainment: illegal. Employment: dangerous. Each of these words has been used to describe the pornography industry. It is one of the longest standing industries and has grown in variety, if not popularity. This is due largely to the advent of the internet, which is connected to...

The Hard Work of Poetry

By Salli Shepherd Poets are constantly crippled, creatively. It’s the way it works. You write a line and, just now, right now, it seems like it’s the best line in the world to date. It’s a shiny, beautiful line, a thought, an image so remarkably profound that you are in awe of yourself, or...

The Vault

By Maria Amir Crossing perceived boundaries.     “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky   I suppose it is necessary to admit at this solemn stage...

More than just a Mum

By Wajiha Hyder The new goddess for the New Age.   Life has been generous enough to bestow a wide-ranging array of experiences upon me: some stupendous, some not entirely so and others just plain dreadful in every respect. Working full-time, however, was never among the most cherished first faction of...

Keeping It Cultural

By Gareth Trew I am obsessed with cultural diversity; it is one of my many drugs. For me, the discovery of a new culture – especially one vastly different to my own – is endlessly fascinating. As such, many readers may find the following akin to a Frenchman praising the delights of Paris. Whilst this...

The Forgotten Language

By Salman Latif Urdu on its death bed? Language is not only a vehicle to transmit human thoughts and feelings, it also chronologizes human evolution. Despite having such profound importance, human languages have both eroded and evolved over time due to both social and political factors. Often, foreign...