Counter Arts

How it felt to watch Britpop’s best band perform in Manchester while my home country bombed Iran

The triumph of freedom through the infinite murmur

Sentimentality, taste, and the politics of loving the ‘wrong’ book

The story of how Alfred Hitchcock created Psycho and the wife who put up with him

But I’m beginning to understand what it has to offer

Leo McCarey’s Depression-era drama, beloved since its 1937 release, remains emotionally powerful and frighteningly relevant

Time apart from an old friend revealed contrasting beliefs and reminded me that some things are best left in the past.

One last walk through the city

Classified as a complex author, his novels are the perfect example of a work that explores the limits of what it means to be human and its…

A nostalgic ritual turned cultural X-ray — examining the alien blockbuster that shaped our Fourths and reflected more than we realized.

This is how a lifetime of reading taught me to listen when stories whisper back.

When a film wants to be a movie

Experiments show that people learn best when they handle objects.

Mirrored echoes of ‘Frankenstein’ (1818) by Mary Shelley

Exploring the forgotten archives of animation, I am not sure I’ll ever know

What people mistake for censorship is often just criticism

An exploration of the Earth‘s geological past.

The introduction of this iconic Clint Eastwood character is pitch perfect

A tribute to two pillars of Indian modern art who shaped our national identity through bronze and brush

What can Korean drama tell us about phenomena beyond our experience

I wonder if Dr. Faust, one of Western literature’s dearest protagonists, was caught…

A sentimental journey through an abundantly wonderful life

Really? Is this how you uplift women’s rights?

A time when rabble-rousers travelled from town to town