Category: Culture

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    Sam Pegg

    Ruining Great Books: Movie-Tie In Covers

    The Edge Editor Sam Pegg discusses why original book covers are so much better than movie tie-ins.

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    Emily Dennis

    Review: Rambert Summer Livestream 2021 – An Extravagant Display of Human Interaction

    In association with a number of theatres across the country, including Southampton’s Mayflower, Rambert held their Summer Livestream which contained two pieces that really captured the beauty of the human experience, showcasing interactions that many will have been without for the last year or so.  The first of the two performances was Eye Candy, choreographed by Marne […]

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    Emily Dennis

    Review: Educating Rita at the MAST – ‘Aged Like Fine Wine’

    Our Culture/Film Public Relation Officer, Emily Dennis, reviews Willy Russell’s Educating Rita, currently playing at MAST Mayflower Studios.

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    Daisy Gazzard

    Review: Copenhagen at MAST Mayflower Studios – “Intriguing and Intelligent”.

    Classic Culture Editor, Daisy Gazzard, reviews the latest adaptation of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen at MAST Mayflower Studios.

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    Daisy Gazzard

    PREVIEW: Copenhagen at MAST Mayflower Studios

    Classic Culture Editor, Daisy Gazzard, drums up anticipation for the adaptation of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen.

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    Sam Pegg

    The Edge’s Favourite Sports Games

    Edge writers tell us their favourite sport games.

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    Georgie Holmes

    Review: Forgive Us by E. T. Gunnarsson

    Georgie Holmes reviews the action-packed, post-apocalyptic novel by E.T. Gunnarsson.

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    Maddie Lock

    Fortnite: The Minecraft of Gen Z

    Maddie Lock raves about Fortnite, possibly three years too late.

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    Morgan McMillan

    The Greatest Sports Books

    Books about fantastic athletes, teams, or sports eras are an incredibly fascinating read. To be a professional athlete or be in the sports industry you need a certain mentality, a mentality that can be translated into everyday life. Through the multitude of books, ranging from basketball players to head coaches you can be taught a […]

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    Elizabeth Sorrell

    The Remainder and Historical Memory

    How do you live with a trauma that you can neither remember nor forget? Everyone knows about it, talks about it, and everyone suffers from it, but you weren’t even born at the time. Alía Trabucco Zerán does a brilliant job of portraying the problematic aspects of historical memory in Latin America through the short-lived […]

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    George Stephenson

    Marvel’s TV Slate: Promising Or Overcrowded?

    George Stephenson reviews Marvel’s massive future focus on TV.

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    Reece Beckett

    Hidden Gems: Anne Sexton’s Live or Die (1966)

    *TW: Mental health, suicide* Anne Sexton’s work in poetry generally seems to have been left behind by many. This may speak to a general preference within popular poetry to focus more so on stories of redemption, whilst Sexton’s usually bleak outlook – and her bleaker personal life, made public – take her work away from […]

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    Alice Fortt

    Sports and Masculinity in Media; a Space for Pity and Critique

    Sports and masculinity do often go hand in hand across the board in all media types. It’s in radio, film, literature, the press; you couldn’t avoid it if you tried. The close relationship between masculinity and sports is arguably enforced tenfold through its common portrayal in the media; men, or masculinity as a whole, are […]

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    Morgan McMillan

    The Best Basketball Podcasts: A Listening Guide

    Morgan McMillan recaps the best in the world of basketball podcasting.