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Fragile Narcissism: “Banshees” and Our Victimhood Culture

And maybe there are banshees too. I just don’t think they scream to portend death anymore. I think they just sit back amused and observe. SPOILER ALERT At first glance,…

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Mistress of Murder

In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to Kat Rosenfield about her novel, You Must Remember This and about nostalgia, suspense and the process of writing. The…

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1 min

Nev March: History and Mystery

08/03/2023
Nev March and Iona Italia

In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to novelist Nev March about her latest book, Peril at the Exposition, an intricately plotted and lushly descriptive historical…

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5 min

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Weird Japan: Western Critiques of Anime and Manga

In 2021, I wrote about the successes of Japan’s manga and anime industries for this magazine. Now, at the beginning of 2023, the Rising Sun’s pop culture exports remain as…

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8 min

Dall∙E and the Creation of Art

My early years at high school were marked by a protracted disagreement with my art teacher. Given the evidence of several years of atrocious drawings, I had concluded that I…

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11 min

When Fiction Is Truer Than Fact: Hunter S. Thompson’s Gonzo Journalism

Just over fifty years ago, in 1971, Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was published and instantly became a countercultural classic. However, people have always struggled to…

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The Innovations of Jane Austen: A Conversation with John Mullan

01/12/2022
John Mullan and Iona Italia

In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, I talk to Professor John Mullan about the subtlety and genius of Jane Austen: one of most popular and perhaps the most…

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4 min

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Art and the Search for Immortality

In the 1982 film Blade Runner, a group of synthetic humans called replicants abandon their various posts off world and make an illegal return to Earth. Their motives become clear…

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12 min

What’s Possessed Us? “The Story Paradox” by Jonathan Gottschall

Many movies feature characters with dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder. But when researchers combed through all the psychiatric records from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for…

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7 min

Ancient Archetypes and Modern Superheroes

Nothing is said that has not been said before.—Terence, Eunuchus. We live in an age of superheroes. In every one of the past five years, with the exception of 2020…

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7 min

The Acme of New Hollywood: The Godfather

The Godfather is one of the greatest films ever put on the big screen. Few films come close in terms of storytelling, technical filmmaking, acting, ambience and drama to this…

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7 min

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The Flipside of Intersectionality: Heinrich Heine and the Platen Affair

The incident in question took place in 1820s Germany—amid the stuffy atmosphere that dominated life there between the defeat of Napoleon and the failed democratic uprisings of 1848, after the…

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14 min

In Defence of Liberal Education: Roosevelt Montás’ “Rescuing Socrates”

Roosevelt Montás is the author of a powerful new book called Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation, which is…

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11 min

One Book to Rule Them All: The Enduring Popularity of The Lord of the Rings

A commercial for Amazon’s forthcoming TV series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, aired during this year’s Super Bowl, racked up a record 257 million views online…

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Interview with Nev March, Author of “Murder in Old Bombay”

21/01/2022
Iona Italia and Nev March

In the latest episode of Areo‘s Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia interviews novelist Nev March about her ambitious historical novel, which explores issues of race, class and imperialism in…

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8 min

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Santa, Superman and Notre Dame: On the Reinvention of Culture

So, it turns out that Santa Claus is gay. Or at least he is according to Norway’s postal service, Posten, which recently released a Christmas advertisement showing him enjoying some…

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9 min

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Golgo 13 and the Globalization of James Bond

Whether you see Ian Fleming’s James Bond as the quintessential masculine spy or as a throwback to a backward era, Agent 007’s enduring place in literature and cinema is well…

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10 min

South Park’s Comic View of Human Nature

When South Park aired on Comedy Central in 1997, its crudeness and profanity earned it TV’s adults only MA rating. Twenty-three years and more than 300 episodes later, it continues…

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Fragile Narcissism: “Banshees” and Our Victimhood Culture

Mistress of Murder

Nev March: History and Mystery

Weird Japan: Western Critiques of Anime and Manga

Dall∙E and the Creation of Art

When Fiction Is Truer Than Fact: Hunter S. Thompson’s Gonzo Journalism

The Innovations of Jane Austen: A Conversation with John Mullan

Art and the Search for Immortality

What’s Possessed Us? “The Story Paradox” by Jonathan Gottschall

Ancient Archetypes and Modern Superheroes

The Acme of New Hollywood: The Godfather

The Flipside of Intersectionality: Heinrich Heine and the Platen Affair

In Defence of Liberal Education: Roosevelt Montás’ “Rescuing Socrates”

One Book to Rule Them All: The Enduring Popularity of The Lord of the Rings

Interview with Nev March, Author of “Murder in Old Bombay”

Santa, Superman and Notre Dame: On the Reinvention of Culture

Golgo 13 and the Globalization of James Bond

South Park’s Comic View of Human Nature

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