The Masque of the Red Death: Poe, pandemics and the Covid connection
Poe’s gothic tale feels like a very modern horror
Macbeth explained: Careless whispers and a contagious curse
An original analysis of Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy, Macbeth – with a twist.
Explainer: Notes on Nationalism, by George Orwell
Like 1984, Orwell’s ‘Notes on Nationalism’ feels eerily prescient of today’s political landscape – despite being published in 1945.
The Machine Stops: how E.M. Forster predicted the internet in 1909
How The Machine Stops predicts the dangers of going digital