Poppy Sowerby

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  • Sep 11, 2025
    It’s often said that the most boring conversation you’ll ever have is when someone tells you about a dream they had. I disagree: the single most tedious insight into...
  • Aug 20, 2025
    For most of us, it’s the hazy last hurrah for summer. For the French, it’s a time to skive off work. But if you’re a young woman at the University of Alabama,...
  • Jul 3, 2025
    Lorde is a 28-year-old teenager. As such, she spends her days looking at herself in the mirror, then scribbling down furious reflections on how much she hates herself. When...
  • May 27, 2025
    n the “not-so-distant future” of the 1997 sci-fi thriller Gattaca, society is divided by genetic status. The protagonist, played by Ethan Hawke, is a naturally conceived...
  • May 13, 2025
    In America, there are two famous vampires named Brian Johnson. Well, sort of. The first, who admittedly spells it “Bryan”, is the preternaturally ageless tech...
  • Mar 14, 2025
    In 1989 David Duke, former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, was elected to Louisiana’s house of representatives. At college, he had marched around campus in a Nazi...
  • Feb 25, 2025
    If I were Andrea Dworkin, I’d be glad that I was dead. When the radical feminist writer succumbed to heart disease aged 58, it seemed tragically young — but at least she...