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Articles by Shamika Tamhane
An Artificial Low
Ottessa Mosfegh’s novel, out in paperback since July last year, details the experience of an unnamed orphaned young woman living in New York at the start of the millennium who embarks upon a year of sleeping in a bid to fix her ennui.
The decline of Wonderland: festive fun or Christmas consumerism?
Since Christmas’s modern conception in the mid-Victorian period, the festive season has always seemed to be under threat from capitalism, commercialism and immigration; all which allegedly seek to demean and dilute the ‘true meaning of Christmas’.
No rest for the wicked
Ask someone how they’re feeling and you are most likely to be met with a response along the lines of ‘tired’, ‘shattered, ‘exhausted’ or knackered’. Whatever the variation of the feeling, the root cause is the same lack of sleep . Ask anyone how many hours shut eye they got last night and the number is most certainly less than the eight and a half recommended for young adults. It’s quite alarming for young people to feel this way.
Makeover Montage
Why are we still in love with the makeover montage despite its flaws? Shamika Tamhane gets beneath the surface. For me, the makeover montage is the guilty pleasure within the already guilty pleasure of the rom-com, the perfect thing to watch when feeling under the weather in bed and far from glamorous.
‘A Familiar Friend’ review: “a masterful intensity”
At first thought, the idea that the story of Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie would be vaguely relatable to student life seems absurd. But Josh Bourne manages to take one of our childhood tales and vividly re-imagine it so it slots into our daily lives.
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