In Conversation With The Owner of The Nile Valley Cafe, Abdul Abdalla
The iconic Nile Valley Café, on Chapel Street, can probably lay claim to having fed every student at the University of Edinburgh at some point or the other. The hum…
‘In Other Words’: Tills’ summertime pop-up bookshop
Tucked away at the edge of the Meadows, directly across the road from Tills bookshop, hides a delightful little green police box. This police box is anything but ordinary because…
Finding your favourite falafel: a comprehensive guide
A hummus falafel wrap is almost as synonymous with Edinburgh students as mullets and flared jeans. Maybe you’ve just begun dipping your toe into the wonderful world of chickpea goodness…
Poetry in Motion: The Legacy of Robert Burns
On Monday 25th January, Scotland celebrated Burns Night. Haggis was cooked, Buckfast was poured and the ephemeral words of Scotland’s most famous poet, Robert Burns, were recited. Each year, on…
Problematising martyrdom of NHS workers
CW: anti-Blackness Gwendolyn Brooks’ marvellous poem Negro Hero is a dramatic monologue for Doris ‘Dorie’ Miller, a Black American sailor honoured ‘for distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard…
‘The Brother’s Grimm: living a fairy tale?’
They may have closed their doors for the time being, but the National Library of Scotland have joined the fight to preserve culture in the time of Corona with a…
Poem of the Week: Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Darkling Thrush’
Hardy’s opening stanza includes some of the bleakest lines of poetry I’ve come across, but I equally think that they are the most beautiful and honest. The narrator makes no…
Poem of the week: Jack Underwood’s ‘Holy Sonnets X’
O drunk DEATH, go home. We like our dying lives. Have a big glass of water and think about it: I sleep in often. I waste my life…
