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Review: Girl from the North Country

Girl From the North Country is a show that defies description. It sits somewhere between a play and a musical, a comedy and a tragedy, and a complete mess and quite enjoyable. The story focuses on the plight of the Laine family who run a guesthouse in Duluth, Minnesota during the Great Depression, as well […]

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Culture Literature

“The Times They Are A-Changin’” – Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature

Bob Dylan’s words rang true when the Nobel Foundation decided to award the Literature Prize to the iconic songwriter, whose only outright contribution to literature was his experimental prose poetry work, Tarantula, published in 1971. The outcome has been polarising within both the music and literary industries, as fans of Dylan are conflicted by the […]