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2 weeks ago | culturefly.co.uk | Chloe Walker

In April 2024, students at New York City’s Columbia University erected encampments on campus, aimed at protesting their institution’s financial entanglement with Israel, then six months into a war with Palestine now widely considered a genocide. Although the encampments were peaceful, and actually included a lot of Pro-Palestinian Jewish students, the ire of the University, and soon the Federal government, was swiftly bought down upon them.

3 weeks ago | culturefly.co.uk | Natalie Xenos

There’s nothing quite like a book about space travel to remind us just how tiny our place in the cosmos is. Atmosphere – the latest novel by Daisy Jones and the Six author Taylor Jenkins Reid – is set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and it’s a book that’s impossible to read without reflecting on the smallness of humanity compared to the immovable stars above. And yet, through the soaring love story at the very heart of the book, it also shows just how important we are too.

1 month ago | culturefly.co.uk | Natalie Xenos

Seventeen-year-old Aurelia Wycherley is entering her debutante season as a witch. She should be excited about finding the perfect match to tether her magic to. Instead, she’s suffering the effects of a powerful hereditary curse that’s turned her magic into something dark and dangerous that no other witch wants to be anywhere near, let alone form a tether with. And without a tether, Aurelia will lose her magic completely.

1 month ago | culturefly.co.uk | Chloe Walker

17-year-old Sam (Lily Collias) expected company her own age when she agreed to go on a camping trip with her dad, Chris (James Le Gros), and his friend Matt (Danny McCarthy). But after Matt has a falling out with his son, the three of them head off into the forest without Sam’s teenage buddy. Although she’s comfortable enough with Chris and Matt that this doesn’t initially feel like a disaster, over the course of the weekend, their dynamic begins to change.

1 month ago | culturefly.co.uk | Chloe Walker

Linn Ullman is a renowned literary critic and novelist in Norway. However, globally, she will probably always be best known as the daughter of legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and Norwegian actress Liv Ullman. Several years ago now, Linn published Unquiet, an unconventional memoir about what it was like to grow up with such astronomically famous parents.