Archive - Artless

When I hear the word ‘gun’ I reach for my culture

Left and right fight over realism in the arts without knowing what it is

Aug 19 •

July 2024

Colour-blind casting as historical whitewashing

The problem with non-diegetic diversity

Jul 8 •

June 2024

Intimate as sex

1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray

Published on Apocrypha • Jun 30

December 2023

I never thought it would have a happy ending

On The Office’s very special Christmas Specials

Dec 29, 2023 •

November 2023

Of the writing on Substack there is no end

And much reading is a wearing of the self

Nov 29, 2023 •

October 2023

Round up YOUR DEAD

Or is that bring out?

Oct 31, 2023 •

Genocide out of sight, out of mind

Defining ‘The Zone of Interest’

Oct 24, 2023 •

James Clarke and the triage of fiction

‘Sanderson’s Isle’, a new great British novel

Oct 13, 2023 •

The doping scandal in literature

Reading between the lines, being scared of what I see

Oct 6, 2023 •

September 2023

Content harvest festival

An autumnal round-up

Sep 27, 2023 •

Professionalism is.

What makes a show perfect, and why The Office was

Sep 22, 2023 •

How to read short stories

With a bit of why and where thrown in

Sep 13, 2023 •

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