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'Suddenly, Her no longer feels so much like science fiction. The concept of loving an operating system loses its place in the in-between future, and instead acquires immediate relevance in the present.'

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Upon our return from a Sabbatical over Easter Term, we are incredibly excited to publish Minsung Son's reflective piece 'Her' in the Moment of Generative AI, beautifully illustrated by Annie Lane

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Read it here:
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'it is too much for Cassandra to bear the weight of envisioning the future unsupported, too heavy for her to process alone fresh memories of horrors that affect entire nations. CASSANDRA instead calls for solidarity in ... these tasks, in contemporary Ukraine as in ancient Troy.'

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Read Matilda Sidel's review of the Ukrainian feminist masterpiece CASSANDRA, written by Lesia Ukrainka, in a new translation by Nina Murray, up now on our site. The play ran in Cambridge from the 20th to 23rd of February.

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'Clara, however, is proud of the ‘linguistic grey zone’, as she calls it, in which she resides...Literature was a place for her to solidify this linguistic grey zone... When she travels, she travels through bookshops. '

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We are so delighted to share Miruna Tiberiu's evocative interview with the minds behind the independent Parisian publishing house Pippa, which specialises in borderless literature

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Check the full article out here : https://t.co/jisPp7uYmq

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We're delighted to feature an artist spotlight on Tara Panesar's portraits, whose subjects range from her ancestors to rock stars. Tara is a Cambridge Art History alumni currently completing an MPhil in Mediterranean archaeology at UCL.

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'I have always been fascinated by portraits, and the personalities behind them. Whether creating quick figure studies in the street or labouring over an oil painting for hours, the features of the face and the emotions they hold grab my attention first. '

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We've republished Miruna Tiberiu's beautiful essay ‘Our generation did not come with the manual for use in the package’ on queerness and Romania online! It was originally printed in Issue 7 of our magazine

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'I am not ashamed anymore. Let this be my coming out to them. Let this be their education. My name is Miruna Tiberiu, I am queer and I am Romanian, and I will write my own manual for use, together with my community, one conversation at a time.'

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Have more spare time now that term is over? Why not get creative? CRoB Digital is open for rolling submissions in a wide variety of forms!
(NB: our maximum word limit for prose and long-form non-fiction is 1,500 words, poetry should be no longer than 500 words)

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Read the rest of the interview here: https://t.co/Kiqi0zATez

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The second part of David Hurtado's interview with Anders Frederick Steen, boutique winemaker and former Noma sommelier is out now!

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'A winemaker is more like a curator. People that find art and put it up in the museums or galleries. That is our job. We need the wine to be presented in a way where it's understood the best, or exposed to places where they can be drunk by the people that like them.'