Nica Tomasiello is an Italian award-winning short story author, novelist, comic book and film writer, interactive fiction storyteller, and freelance translator, currently studying at the University of Portsmouth. In this article, originally published on her [… read more ]
As Spectre is about to be released on DVD, Richard Warburton examines how Bond has changed over fifty years and what this latest incarnation owes to previous ones. His angle contrasts with another Spectre review from regular contributor, Daniel [… read more ]
As part of this year’s Bookfest programme, Jacob Ross will be chairing an evening of readings from contributors to Closure, a new anthology of contemporary Black British short stories, followed by a Q&A session and [… read more ]
Jackson Davies takes some poetic license with a couple of images from the S&C vaults. Want to get in on the photoshop action? We’re looking for local talent to supply us with funny images, articles, [… read more ]
This week we’re revisiting some of our best pieces from 2015. Today a handpicked selection of some of our finest fiction, poetry and culture pieces. William Sutton – The Crème of Local Writing “I recommend seeking [… read more ]
Following the news that the latest book in the Fifty Shades of Grey sequence topped the UK best-seller list for 2015, Siobhan Coleman takes a fresh look at the novel that kicked the phenomenon off… and [… read more ]
If there was ever a good time to think about what diversity and inclusion mean in Britain today, the time is now argues Dianna Djokey, as she examines the role of the city’s museums in [… read more ]
We posed a challenge to our readers recently to come up with captions to a range of pictures. Here’s our first response to the Southsea seagulls from Jodie Cole. Bird one: “I’m well hard.” Bird [… read more ]
It is widely known that Mahatma Gandhi, leader of India’s struggle for independence, studied law in London in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It isn’t so widely known that he visited Portsmouth during this time. [… read more ]
While Portsmouth-based author Tom Sykes was in Ivory Coast researching a Bradt guidebook, he and his photographer Alexander Sebley met up with a fêticheur, a traditional African shaman. Alexander and I are led by our translator into a courtyard in Abidjan, Ivory [… read more ]
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