The Weekly · Issue No. 5 · Sunday, 6 September 2026

Issue No. 5

History · Essay
Did WWI Fundamentally Transform Conceptions of Masculinity?
A British Perspective.
Rob D'Evelyn
Classics · Essay
Making a Song and Dance of It: Performance and Early Greek Poetry
The difference it makes in our appreciation of early Greek poems to think of them as song lyrics rather than as words on a page.
Anwen Pinniger
Literature · Poetry
Britannia Bereaved
Will no muse, then, cry at Camlann as they did for fair Achilles?
J.R. Hamilton
Classics · Poetry
Written in Grecian Mood
A poem imbued with rich imagination and vivid mythical elements of Ancient Greece, which is intricately woven to express emotions.
Sid Basu
Poetry
Sid
Sid was just a child
Brian Fitzpatrick
Fiction
Über Lord
A Mark Barrett story.
James Ross
Poetry
Proem
An Excerpt
Anthony J Kleem
History · Essay
Genocide in Rwanda: An International Failure
The extent of the Rwandan Genocide was largely due to foreign failings in preventing the scale of the violence. To what extent is this true?
Brad Turland
History · Essay
Exacerbating Civil War: Foreign Superpowers and a Divided Nation
To what extent were foreign powers were the most significant drivers in the Korean War?
Brad Turland
History · Essay
Social Decay and Violence in Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin: The Transformation of the Modern Knights-Errant in Chinese Cinema
Nicholas Parlitsis
Politics · Essay
Necropolitics, Infection Narratives, and The Last of Us
Nicholas Parlitsis
Philosophy · Essay
Evaluating the Controversy of Delivering Therapy Online Using a Postmodern Approach
Syasya Sayed Rajak
History · Essay
How Did Stalinism Transform the Purpose of Soviet Art, 1924–1932?
The fate of revolutionary art after Lenin.
Chanel Parker
History · Essay
Cause or Catalyst? The Opium Wars and the Taiping Rebellion
The Opium Wars deepened a crisis they did not create.
Chanel Parker
Poetry
War & Woe!
A poem about the aftermath of war.
Sid Basu

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