The Camera

The Camera (est. 2024) is a Cambridge-based online cultural review publishing interviews, reviews, & essays, run by graduate students & open to all submissions.

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Caitlin Helena speaks to @SophieHaydock about her novel The Flames, and the untold lives of the women painted and loved by Egon Schiele.

Read now on our website: https://t.co/YgF3MBM91s

Art by Iris Bowdler.

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Rachel Rees speaks to @helen_charman (@englishunicam ) about her new book Mother State, and ideas of motherhood through Thatcher, austerity — and tradwives.

Mother State is out now, via @AllenLaneBooks

Read now on our website: https://t.co/v2puCGzpdE

Art by Elizabeth Murphy.

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Hope Nicholson @HopeNic25020020 speaks to the author and screenwriter Rebecca Frayn about her novel Lost in Ibiza, and environmental activism.

Lost in Ibiza is published by @wearewhitefox

Read now on our website: https://t.co/4HLWqrIhaB

Art by Iris Bowdler

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Rosa Appignanesi speaks to @octaviabright_ about her memoir This Ragged Grace, addiction, and loving through bodily anguish.

This Ragged Grace is out now in paperback, via @canongatebooks.

Read now on our website: https://t.co/8rnl9LoKwQ

Art by Elizabeth Murphy.

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Iris Bowdler on Botticelli’s Venus and Mars at the @FitzMuseum_UK, and the orgasm gap.

Read now on our website: https://t.co/pJGxEbJMh2

Art by Elizabeth Murphy.

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Idil Tekin discusses the Cambridge for Palestine encampment, and the question of cultural solidarity from Kettle’s Yard to King’s Parade.

Read now on our website: https://t.co/AsgPT1mKcj

Art by anonymous.

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On tour for his new album, @RobGMacfarlane speaks to us about the challenge of lyrics, mythic forms' unexpected urgency, and his pre-show playlist.

The Moon Also Rises, with @JohnnyFlynnHQ, is out now via @transgressiveHQ.

Read now on our website: https://t.co/mWpSDn7f4o

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Check out @EndOfSixties' interview with @thecamerapub - talking all things wellness from the 70s to modern-day Goop-mania.

Read here: https://t.co/wQsgeVdpmR

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Rachel Rees speaks to Andrew O'Hagan about his new novel Caledonian Road, his career at the LRB, and his favourite works.

Read now on our website: https://t.co/QrcMYywQqC

Photograph by Christina Jansen. Art by Elizabeth Murphy and @troy_fielder

[James Riley @EndOfSixties]

Many thanks indeed to Elizabeth Murphy and @troy_fielder for doing such an excellent piece on #WellBeings for The Camera (@TheCameraPub)! @GirtonCollege, @iconbooks, @englishunicam, @DonaldWin_.

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Elizabeth Murphy and @troy_fielder speak to James Riley (@EndOfSixties) about his new book Well Beings, a cultural history of wellness from the 1970s to modern-day Goop-mania.

Read now on our website: https://t.co/6XpHFtA3ZG

Art by Elizabeth Murphy.

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.@troy_fielder speaks to the poet and performer
@GeorgeThePoet about his memoir Track Record, his time at Cambridge University, and the importance of music.

Read now on our website: https://t.co/Re03qCfkGE

Art by Iris Bowdler.

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Matilda Sykes speaks to the artist Tom Fairlamb about his work, humans and technology, and stolen artworks.

Read now on our website: https://t.co/c8h4vgj7Fu

Art by Elizabeth Murphy.

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.@troy_fielder visits the studio of Cambridge-based artist John Tordoff and speaks about routine, gardening, and creating art.

Read now on our website: https://t.co/ZfvLMYupz5

Art by Iris Bowdler.

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Rachel Rees speaks to Siobhán McSweeney (@siobhni), Bafta-winning Irish actress, about confronting industry sexism and classism, and what she has taken from Derry Girls.

Read now on our website: https://t.co/Xl346buS7v.

Photograph: Phil Sharp. Art by Iris Bowdler.

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Sarah Jean Abernethy speaks to writer and critic Jacqueline Rose about her book The Plague, complexity as resistance, and fostering hope.

Read now on our website: https://t.co/dlN6SuAL3V.

Art by Iris Bowdler.

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.@troy_fielder speaks to @AMcMillanPoet, award-winning poet and author, about his debut novel, Pity, ahead of his appearance at @camlitfest.

Read on our website: https://t.co/q120e2DCTX

Art by The Camera team

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On the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death, Iris Bowdler explores the infamous poet’s continued cult following.

Read now on our website: https://t.co/yLNBvpL4ud

Art by Iris Bowdler

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.@troy_fielder reviews Issam Kourbaj: Urgent Archive at @kettlesyard.

Read now on our website: https://t.co/kkkwuHeHOL

Image: Troy Fielder

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Iris Bowdler and Rachel Rees review William Blake’s Universe at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Read on our website: https://t.co/ZvnEDLYFnV

Image credit: © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.