Words By Kim Hutson Browsing an old notepad recently I discovered a list I had made as a depressed data-inputting literature graduate. It was a list of things I would like to do: –        Work in a library, museum or university –        Go travelling –        MA in Creative Writing (Ha!) I applied for hundreds, if…

Neil Harrison speaks to Open Eye Gallery‘s Artistic Director, Lorenzo Fusi, ahead of the forthcoming exhibition Tim Hetherington: You Never See Them Like This. From Infidel by Tim Hetherington It is an enduring truth about the nature of war that human stories are routinely overlooked in favour of an often-intangible grand narrative. Now, one war…

Words by Jason Cooke As part of the Manchester Literature Festival, author David Peace paid visit to the National Football Museum, Manchester, to talk to Hacienda legend, Dave Haslam, on stage about his latest novel, Red or Dead. Red or Dead follows the life of Liverpool FC managerial legend, Bill Shankly. Dave Haslam took to…

Words by Jason Cooke Humanities’ Hallows has been tracking the progress of one of MMU’s most successful authors. David Peace is currently in the UK to promote his latest novel, Red or Dead, and Humanities’ Hallows had the privilege of interviewing David before his event at the National Football Museum, Manchester, as part of the…

The US empire’s illusion of benign omnipotence has been broken by the heroic acts of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden writes Neil Harrison  The grotesque climax to the manifest destiny dream. Invisible in the sky, malevolent and capricious, an Old Testament-stye god rains arbitrary, brutal fate upon unsuspecting civilians.  On that Baghdad street, on that…