Featured Non-fiction essays
Pick Your Pattern
From recycled textiles to photosynthetic sweaters, fashion has ostensibly committed itself to sustainability. But is it more than a passing trend? Reviewing Clare Press’ Wear Next, Carody Culver considers the complexities of both defining fashion and imagining the industry’s future.
Selling Tales, Telling Sales
Since the 1980s, fiction has become big business. In her review of Dan Sinykin’s wide-ranging study of American publishing, Alice Grundy argues for the importance of the demythologising effects of Sinykin’s institutionalist approach for both literary scholarship and industrial relations.
Non-fiction
Pick Your Pattern
From recycled textiles to photosynthetic sweaters, fashion has ostensibly committed itself to sustainability. But is it more than a passing trend? Reviewing Clare Press’ Wear Next, Carody Culver considers the complexities of both defining fashion and imagining the industry’s future.
Selling Tales, Telling Sales
Since the 1980s, fiction has become big business. In her review of Dan Sinykin’s wide-ranging study of American publishing, Alice Grundy argues for the importance of the demythologising effects of Sinykin’s institutionalist approach for both literary scholarship and industrial relations.