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We need to politicise mental health
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Fallowfield’s 18.35%: Why are students not voting?
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Celebrity style guide #6: Michael Schumacher
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Tyrants cruise to playoff victory against Stirling Cl...
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Houseplant heaven: The best plants to brighten up your student home
Why is everybody obsessed with minimalism?
How to have a routine when you have so few contact hours
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TikTok and Teatox: Why social media is sucking the joy out of food
Margarita Month at Zouk: All style, less substance
Flight Club: Margarita Month with a twist
Springleaf Podcast: James Acaster’s new audio adventure
My year abroad, the visa process, and getting lost in translation
Getting involved: Volunteering at the Booth Centre
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Celebrity style guide #6: Michael Schumacher
Does Hailey Bieber’s Rhode phone case signal the death of the handbag?
Get to know Oddmuse: Aimee Smale on doing ‘what people aren’t expecting’
Houseplant heaven: The best plants to brighten up your student home
17th April 2024
With the RHS Urban Show coming to Manchester, we've found some of the best houseplants to enhance your student accommodation
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Boy Swallows Universe: Does reality make the best fic...
What to read in 2024: Exciting new book releases
Reading should be for joy, not health
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Review: Please Feel Free to Ignore My Work by David H...
Making Manchester #1: Anna Marsden
Four women who make the art world a better place
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Live Review: Caroline Polachek at Albert Hall
6th June 2023
Caroline Polachek stuns a sold-out Albert in her rescheduled show, touring her second solo album Desire, I Want To Turn Into You.
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An evening with UoM Film Society and Chungking Express
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Taskmaster: Why it’s so good and where to begin
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SCALA!!! co-director Jane Giles on audiences, programming and being a first-time filmmaker: “There has to be room in the film world for all tastes”
16th April 2024
In conversation with Jane Giles, co-director of SCALA!!!, we discuss how she came to make the film, her career in programming and how the London cinema had lasting impact on young audiences
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A novel for the Anthropocene: Richard Powers’ The Overstory
Books
Will Stonier considers how Richard Powers interacts with the anthropecene in his book of short stories
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Why do we put books on a pedestal?
Books
Alice Porter attempts to de-spell the myth that books are the supreme form of popular culture, despite being a self-proclaimed book lover
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£1000 National Book Tokens Prize
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Win a National Book Token prize worth £1000 to spend on books throughout your course
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Manchester in writing
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Sam Coates provides a list of books and poetry we believe are essential to understand and appreciate the city of Manchester
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Spotlight: Science non-fiction
Books
Science fiction can be difficult to access, but these picks will help you into a thoroughly enjoyable genre
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The Mancunion’s most anticipated books of 2019
Books
The Mancunion previews 2019’s most exciting literary releases
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Review: An Evening with Graham Norton
Books
Daisy Lester shares her thoughts on the chat show host’s appearance at the Manchester Literature Festival, discussing his new book, The Keeper
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The Library of the Future
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100 acclaimed authors will each write one piece over the next 100 years for a literary time capsule, to remain unpublished until the 22nd Century
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Review: Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Jeffrey Eugenides releases a new collection of short stories
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What’s On for Literature Lovers: November
Books
A few events around Manchester for literature lovers, this November
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Preview: Louder than Words Festival returns to Manchester
Books
Louder than Words Festival returns to Manchester to celebrate the relationship between music and writing
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Review: Hollie McNish & Jackie Hagan at the Manchester Literature Festival
Books
Poetry double bill as rising stars Hollie McNish and Jackie Hagan perform at Manchester Literature Festival
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Kamila Shamsie in conversation with Jeanette Winterson
Books
‘Art is not going to be the thing that brings down borders and barriers… but Art may remind us of humanity.’
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Alan Hollinghurst at the Manchester Literature Festival
Books
Award-winning author Alan Hollinghurst talks about first novel in six years at the MLF
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Protest: Stories of Resistance – an afternoon with Maxine Peake
Books
“I think it’s almost impossible to write without being political” — Kit de Waal
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Preview: Manchester Literature Festival 2017
Books
The Books Editor’s top picks from the forthcoming Manchester Literature Festival
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Review: Two Hundred Very Short Stories by Helen Keeling-Marston
Books
This collection of quick reads provides an interesting commentary on the struggles of finding time for leisure reading
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Remembering Roald Dahl – Author and Innovator
Books
So many have have found joy in his work
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Review: An Evening with Beth Underdown
Books
Thomas Lee reviews the book launch of Beth Underdown’s new novel The Witchfinder’s Sister
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Review: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
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Gurnaik Johal reviews George Saunders’ first novel Lincoln in the Bardo
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